Sentences with phrase «controlling epilepsy»

There is some evidence that in humans at least, diets high in fat and low in carbohydrate might be beneficial in controlling epilepsy.

He also discussed the role of diet and supplements in controlling epilepsy and the need for more research in this area.

Kearney hopes that understanding and controlling his epilepsy will comfort Rockie so he can relax and find his forever family.

The diet, though unconventional, is effective at controlling epilepsy.

This makes it an ideal target for controlling epilepsy, regardless of where the seizures start.»

Hi Grant, I know grams are a pain to figure out for most people, however the recipes found on this site are created for a very special population of people, kids on the ketogenic diet to control epilepsy.

Implants that stimulate nerve clusters deep within the brain can help control epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.

Children with this syndrome have severe, difficult - to - control epilepsy.

On June 18, neurosurgeons at the University of Alabama at Birmingham implanted a new type of electrical stimulator to control seizures in patients with difficult - to - control epilepsy.

Current methods to control epilepsy, which affects 1 in 26 Americans, are not only inefficient but haven't improved in more than 150 years when the first anticonvulsant drug was developed.

Though the diet was originally designed to help control epilepsy, studies today show ketogenic diets benefit numerous conditions including weight gain, cancer, type 2 diabetes, low energy levels, and aging.

Children with seizures are often prescribed a ketogenic diet to control epilepsy.

My dietician recently recommended I look into a ketogenic diet to help control my epilepsy.

The exact mechanisms of how the ketogenic diet works to control epilepsy are still unknown, the diet continues to gain acceptance as an alternative to drug therapy.

The clinic is designed to provide an alternative treatment path for htose with difficult to control epilepsy.

But most vets attempt to control the problems with mixtures of human antidepressant and anti-compulsive mediations and / or drugs know to control epilepsy.

Veterinarians use the same medicines that control epilepsy in humans to control the disorder in dogs, though some of the newer medications are too expensive for most pet owners, said O'Brien.

As of now, Rosie is on 6 different medications taking 13 tablets a day to control her epilepsy, strokes and pain relief.

Seizures can often be reduced or eliminated with the same medications veterinarians use to control epilepsy.

If you have controlled epilepsy, you know very well that you'll live a normal life span.

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Developed by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, the pill will be used by patients with epilepsy to control seizures.

If you're using a ketogenic diet to treat specific health conditions (e.g., controlling your blood sugar, treating cancer, or treating epilepsy), then you probably need to be on the diet for an indefinite period of time.

Scientists have gained a better molecular understanding of the region of the brain in individuals with epilepsy which — due to a developmental abnormality, trauma, stroke, or a growing tumor — has stopped responding to control signals, and this results in recurrent seizures.

Suthana and her colleagues worked with 25 people with epilepsy who had electrodes already implanted in the brain for controlling seizures.

The authors searched for genetic mutations that might explain the disproportionately high risk of SUDEP in people with poorly controlled focal epilepsy, which, by definition stems from a specific area of the brain.

Having such control over the brain could one day provide a non-invasive treatment for conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, depression and epilepsy.

The discovery of a new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in the brain communicate with each other to regulate our learning and long - term memory could have major benefits to understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy and dementia.

Approximately 3 million people in the United States suffer from epilepsy, and a third of them experience seizures that can not be controlled with medication.

First, looking at a study of 185 cases of childhood epilepsy, Wittkowski's team found that mutations in genes that control axonal guidance and calcium signaling — both of which are important early in the developing brain when neurons are forming the appropriate connections — led to increased chances of having the disorder.

In all of the 18 waterways, researchers detected atenolol acid (a high - blood - pressure medication component); 5 - methyl - 1H - benzotriazole (a corrosion inhibitor found in dishwasher detergent); caffeine; the insect repellant DEET; gabapentin (an epilepsy medication); metformin (a medication that controls blood sugar); saccharin and sucralose (Splenda).

But most people with epilepsy don't need surgery, as seizures can be controlled by medication in approximately 60 percent of all patients.

«Neurostimulator for epilepsy seizure control implanted in patients.»

With a neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, he's also creating brain implants for reading or controlling neural activity — helpful for diagnosing and treating people with epilepsy, or eventually for building those sci - fi brain - computer interfaces.

The device, called the RNS System, was implanted April 17, 2014 in a patient with seizures that previously could not be controlled with medication, or intractable epilepsy, by Werner Doyle, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at NYU Langone.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 2.3 million Americans suffer from epilepsy, with about one in 26 people expected to be diagnosed in their lifetimes.

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.

Despite recent advances in anti-epileptic drug (AED) development, many adults with epilepsy continue to struggle with seizure control.

These maps show networks in the brains of controls and patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

In one instance, they showed structures that plan and then activate movement, which tend to interact in one direction in control subjects, may have abnormal bidirectional interactions in the brains of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

The proportion of women who achieved pregnancy was 70 percent for women with epilepsy and 67.1 percent for healthy controls.

Of the pregnancies that occurred, a similar proportion resulted in live birth (81.8 percent women with epilepsy and 80 percent controls), miscarriage (12.7 percent women with epilepsy and 20 percent controls), or other outcomes (5.4 percent women with epilepsy compared to 0 percent healthy controls).

Average time to pregnancy in women with epilepsy was 6.03 months, compared with 9.05 months for healthy controls, and after controlling for age, body mass index, parity and race, there was no difference across groups for time to pregnancy.

Women with epilepsy and healthy control participants who were between the ages of 18 and 41 seeking pregnancy and less than six months removed from contraception were followed throughout the duration of their pregnancy.

The researchers used two types of data from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and healthy control subjects.

Rice statistician Marina Vannucci and lead author Sharon Chiang, an M.D. / Ph.D. student at Rice and Baylor College of Medicine, and their co-authors detailed their technique to analyze brain activity data from patients with epilepsy and control groups to see how distinct structures in the brain spontaneously interact.

Kathryn Clark's epilepsy had been under control for years.

«Identifying the precise cause of a child's epilepsy as soon as possible would help us choose the most effective treatment to control seizures early on, which is important for healthier brain development.

Although the surgery was deemed a success in controlling the seizures associated with his epilepsy, Henry Molaison was found to suffer from amnesia; he had lost the ability to convert short - term memory into long - term memory.

Of the 2.7 million Americans estimated to have some form of epilepsy approximately 25 - 30 % of these individuals do not attain adequate seizure control and suffer from intractable epilepsy.»

If your seizures have not been brought under control after three months of care by a primary care provider (family physician, pediatrician), further neurologic intervention by a neurologist, or an epilepsy center if locally available, is appropriate.