Sentences with phrase «cause epilepsy»

If a dog falls down having an epileptic fit within half an hour, ten days, or a month of vaccination, the vet very often fails to suspect a link — even though vaccines are known to cause epilepsy, and the human Vaccine Damage Compensation Unit has paid up to # 30,000 to parents whose children were made epileptic by vaccines.

The genes that, in theory, might cause epilepsy are called «candidate genes».

Rare mutations in the NMDA receptor genes cause epilepsy (GRIN2A) or intellectual disability (GRIN2B).

It is caused by a genetic mutation, which Dr. Baraban's group was able to introduce into the zebrafish to cause epilepsy.

«Brain regions most likely to cause epilepsy seizures: Mathematical approach could pinpoint which brain tissue should be removed during surgical treatment.»

A team of researchers has pinpointed two genes that, when mutated, can each cause epilepsy in infants.

We have been looking for genes that cause epilepsy to see if any of them might give us a clue as to who might be at risk.

They showed that RyR2, which is also expressed in the brain, also causes epilepsy in mice and sets up an electrical surge that makes a fatal blackout likely.

Testing showed that 40 percent of them had specific genetic factors that caused epilepsy.

To identify genes responsible for causing epilepsy in various breeds of dog, including the Australian Shepherd, and develop a DNA screening test.

In any one - dog breed, due to inbreeding and linebreeding, there will probably be only one gene or a few genes involved in causing epilepsy.

Not exact matches

The company aims to be the standard tracking and notification technology for a variety of seizures, whether they're caused by epilepsy, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, or another condition.

The most common cause of the type of seizure that Walsh had that day — known as a grand mal seizure (literally «great sickness» in French)-- is epilepsy.

Strobe lights can cause seizures for people who have epilepsy.

For example, we now know epilepsy is not caused by evil spirits, nor are epileptic seizures caused by demon possession.

For example, we now know epilepsy is not caused by evil spirits, nor are epileptic seizures caused by demonic possession.

So you still believe that epilepsy is caused by demon - possession, and that the sun revolves around the earth, regardless of what science says?

To read it literally is to believe in a three - tiered universe, to condone slavery, to treat women as inferior creatures, to believe that sickness is caused by God's punishment and that mental disease and epilepsy are caused by demonic possession.

When he was 7 months old he started having seizures and we took him into hospital and they did brain scans which showed he has infantile spasms epilepsy caused by brain scarring from hypoglycaemia from not feeding properly in his first days of life.

Our team of top doctors excels in finding the cause of your child's seizure (s), including epilepsy, and minimizing such incidents in the future.

«Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy — SUDEP — turns out to be the most common cause of premature death in people with epilepsy.

«We wondered whether some of those same genes could also cause seizures if they were expressed in the brain and, if so, whether those genes would also place people with epilepsy at risk not only for having epilepsy but also an abnormal heart beat and risk of death,» said Noebels.

The study also discovered that microscopic spasms in capillaries occur, albeit with lower frequency, during normal brain function, too, suggesting that one problem caused by epilepsy is that seizures drive these vasospasms to abnormal levels.

In most people with epilepsy, the disease is thought to be caused by their genes.

«Lack of oxygen, not excessive stimulation, cause for half of seizure - related brain damage in epilepsy.»

One potential beneficiary is Hannah Smith, a 27 - year - old woman from Measham, Leicestershire, who has a mitochondrial mutation causing Melas Syndrome, which can causes diabetes, hearing loss and epilepsy.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have uncovered new clues to the link between Nodding syndrome, a devastating form of pediatric epilepsy found in specific areas of east Africa, and a parasitic worm that can cause river blindness.

«Nodding syndrome caused by response to parasitic protein, international study suggests: Study also identifies potential new mechanism for some forms of epilepsy.»

The study describes a potential outline of what happens after brain injury to trigger epilepsy, but the neurological causes of how TBI kills interneurons specifically after the initial injury are still unknown.

«New cell type is implicated in epilepsy caused by traumatic brain injury.»

The understandings gained from this research are part of the necessary foundation for developing treatments related to the causes and symptoms of epilepsy.

After experiencing a similar episode three weeks later, he went to a doctor and learned he had epilepsy, a neurological disorder caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

Loss of neurons from the hippocampus, a brain region that processes and stores memories, is a common cause of temporal lobe epilepsy.

«Understanding the mechanisms that promote aberrant neurogenesis caused by traumatic brain injury and subsequent seizures may open new therapeutic avenues to prevent epilepsy and associated memory problems caused by impact,» said senior author Dr. Jenny Hsieh, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and a member of the UT Southwestern Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.

Eggleston's part of the project was aimed at finding genetic markers that would help biologists zero in on the genes that cause defects in purebred dogs, such as hip dysplasia and epilepsy.

But Mucke, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues believe they may finally have pinpointed the cause of these puzzling personality twists as well as other cognitive deficits associated with Alzheimer's: petite mal (nonconvulsive) seizures similar to those exhibited in some types of epilepsy.

Somatic brain mutations, affecting just pockets of cells, can be harmful, and have been suggested as a possible cause of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, epilepsy or intellectual disability (see this review article for further background).

And in Guinea - Bissau, epilepsy is widely thought of as being caused by evil spirits, or sometimes as a punishment for wrongdoing.

Mark Leppert and his colleagues at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and other institutions, discovered the culprit mutations when they were looking for the cause of two epilepsies called benign familial neonatal convulsions.

I have epilepsy and experienced many of the ADRs my drugs cause.

«Given that abnormal synapse formation causes various neurodevelopmental diseases such as autism spectrum disorders and epilepsy, understanding activity - dependent mechanisms of initial synapse formation will be important for developing new therapeutic strategies for these conditions,» explained Dr. Kwon.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

A surgeon named William Beecher Scoville had done experimental surgeries suggesting that severe epilepsy could be treated by removing the parts of the brain that caused the electrical malfunction.

He suspects that vitamin B6 deficiency, known to cause a severe form of epilepsy, might contribute as well.

Disruptions in stability cause disorders such as epilepsy, but precious little is known about this macro-level regulatory phenomenon.

«Sudden unexpected death is the main cause of death in uncontrolled epilepsy and usually occurs unwitnessed during sleep,» said study author James Tao, MD, PhD, with the University of Chicago in Illinois and a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

The prolonged seizures in status epilepticus are therefore thought to cause or importantly contribute to the development of epilepsy in humans.

While there is no known trigger behind seizures in people with epilepsy, Dr. Kuebler and his lab are using their drug - screening technique to investigate potential metabolic causes — using genetically modified, seizure - prone flies (a family of Drosophila flies called Bang - sensitive paralytic mutants).

When the doctors examined her, they diagnosed her with epilepsy as well, caused by a small patch of damaged brain tissue.

The finding is likely to bring new insight into disorders caused by faulty control of these channels, such as cardiac arrhythmias, epilepsy and Parkinson's disease, the researchers say.