Sentences with phrase «epilepsy if»

The breed, age and the history may suggest a genetic basis for primary epilepsy if there is a familial history of seizures.

We can only save the Aussie from epilepsy if we work together to do so.

Not exact matches

If they are successful, this means that neural motes can not only monitor health, but actively serve as electroceutical therapies to treat brain disorders such as epilepsy.

Most «seeing the light» conversion experiences can be traced to some form of epilepsy, however if, in this hypothetical, there is no trace of brain abnormality, it would still be unwise to believe such a person's account.

I'm never sure if back then they had the exact same things going on that we do, but they didn't know about things like epilepsy or mental illness so they just called it all demon possession.

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.

If you can keep CP and other like neurological conditions in mind your future analyses (especially given their high comorbidity with epilepsy), that would be welcome.

BabyCentre recommends that you do not use essential oils if you have a history of miscarriage, have had vaginal bleeding during this pregnancy, have epilepsy, heart problems, diabetes, blood clotting, or thyroid, liver, or kidney disease.

It's especially important if you have a history of miscarriage, epilepsy, blood clotting and heart problems, diabetes, liver, thyroid or kidney disease.

There are also a number of medical conditions that should be diagnosed and, if appropriate, treated by a midwife or doctor before you start reflexology treatment, including multiple pregnancies, vaginal discharge, uterine pain, epilepsy, diabetes and any other health problems such as heart, kidney or liver disorders.

Therefore, you should not use fennel if you have epilepsy or any other type of seizure disorder.

If you have ever suffered from epilepsy attacks in the past or if you have any seizure disorders, stay away from using fenneIf you have ever suffered from epilepsy attacks in the past or if you have any seizure disorders, stay away from using fenneif you have any seizure disorders, stay away from using fennel.

If your child has special needs such as allergies, phobias or medical alerts such as epilepsy or asthma, please include this information with home and work phone numbers on the form we provide.

Doctors who opt not to take the online certification course required to prescribe marijuana can refer patients to another physician who may be able to certify the patient if they have a serious health condition, like cancer, HIV / AIDS or forms of epilepsy.

His bill would limit its application to epilepsy, intractable skeletal muscular spasticity, traumatic brain injury, glaucoma, cachexia, wasting syndrome, Dravet syndrome, HIV / AIDS, Cancer, ALS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Crohn's disease, and terminal illnesses if a patient has a prognosis of less than 12 months to live.

«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.

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 may not look like a big deal from the outside, but if you listen in to the brain of a patient having one of these seizures, you can hear that the brain is in seizure,» says Josef Parvizi, a Stanford neuroscientist and epilepsy specialist who developed the brain stethoscope with colleague Chris Chafe, a music researcher at Stanford.

Further, if blood were to play a tempering role, disruptions in its flow could explain the mechanism behind epilepsy, which can result from overexcited neurons.

We did not know if this would be the same or different for people with epilepsy.»

That is necessary if the organoids are to grow bigger, probably the only way they can mimic fully grown brains and show how disorders such as autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia unfold.

The easiest way to determine if someone has temporal lobe epilepsy is to monitor the brain waves during sleep, when there is an increased likelihood of activity indicative of epilepsy.

Discussing Fyodor Dostoevsky's epilepsy, Anil Ananthaswamy asks if mystics through the ages had comparable «ecstasies» (25 January, p 44).

MBANs at Home If all goes well, look for MBANs to fall into three categories in the near future — those used to monitor a patient's general health or «wellness,» those measuring the health of the elderly, and those used to monitor patients with long - term medical conditions such as Parkinson's disease or epilepsy, says Paolo Bonato, director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Boston's Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School..

Professor Marianne Thoresen said: «Even if we account for a lesser severity of perinatal asphyxia, our research has shown that therapeutic hypothermia reduces the number of children who develop epilepsy later in childhood.

Even if a lesser severity of perinatal asphyxia is accounted for, cooling therapy has increased the number of healthy survivors and there are very few children with epilepsy needing drug treatment.

«We now need longitudinal studies to confirm these findings, because if true, it may be possible to design interventions to help prevent mental health problems in some people with epilepsy.»

This is critical if we are to develop new treatments to prevent epilepsy from developing after a head injury, stroke, or brain tumor.»

«However, it's important to remember that even if the relative risks are high, the absolute risks of CP and epilepsy are still small,» says researcher Martina Persson, paediatrician and associate professor at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medicine in Solna.

If people with focal epilepsy don't respond well to standard drugs, they are often offered surgery to remove the part of the brain where the problems start.

Two newer epilepsy drugs may not harm the thinking skills or IQs of school - aged children whose mothers took them while pregnant — but an older drug is linked to cognitive problems in children, especially if their mothers took high doses — according to new research from The University of Manchester.

If the drug stopped the genetically altered mice from becoming epileptic, this genetic approach would prove that inhibiting TrkB prevents the onset of epilepsy.

In the current study, McNamara and his colleagues sought to confirm if TrkB was important for status epilepticus - induced epilepsy.

In the early 1970s he found indications that people with epilepsy also could reduce their risk of seizures if they learned to heighten their SMR levels.

We want to know if we can prevent epilepsy by avoiding or reversing the chronic inflammation.»

A major advantage of using valproic acid is that it's already approved as an epilepsy drug by the Food and Drug Administration, so if it were ever to be used in humans, it wouldn't have to go through the same long, expensive approval process that a new compound would require.

If we treat a patient right after their initial injury, we can mitigate the chronic inflammation and reduce the likelihood that they develop epilepsy,» she said.

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 appropriatIf 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 appropriatif locally available, is appropriate.

«If you ruin this balance in the cortex and there's too much excitation and too little inhibition, it can lead to seizures and epilepsy.

It is still unclear if the cilia are directly involved in the cause of the epilepsy and other diseases, or if the relevant proteins function in other, non-ciliary ways to cause disease.

The cortex has a tendency to make recurrent excitation, and, if not properly controlled by the inhibitory system, this could lead to seizures, as is seen in epilepsy.

If you are being treated by an epilepsy center, you can also seek a second opinion at another epilepsy center if you have questions about the care that you are receivinIf you are being treated by an epilepsy center, you can also seek a second opinion at another epilepsy center if you have questions about the care that you are receivinif you have questions about the care that you are receiving.

Collect brain wave data from a child to determine if her seizures are due to epilepsy or another disorder.

In addition, patients may benefit from the advanced care provided by epilepsy centers if they continue to have seizures despite treatment with two medications, experience unacceptable side effects or are pregnant or want to become pregnant.

If you are seeing a neurologist, and the seizures have not been brought under control after 9 to 12 months, then you should ask for a referral to a specialized epilepsy center.

For example if one went over on their number of carbs they can still maintain ketosis if the add enough fat (although at a higher caloric amount) how much fat can be determined on the calculator which used the Woodyatt formula originally designed for epilepsy.

If you use the ketogenic diet for therapeutic purposes (epilepsy, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc.), it's a good idea to track your ketone levels.

Likewise, if we look at the data in adults with epilepsy following a ketogenic diet, we see that around 30 % report improvements in their seizures.

If it works for epilepsy patients, it follows that it should be helpful for any person trying to get into ketosis quickly.

The # 1 thing I recommend when someone approaches me about «going keto» (other than someone who is asking for their child with epilepsy or autism), and what I think you should do too if you want to try this out, is a Paleo, or paleolithic type, diet first (but a properly done one, don't get me started on how badly this is being done out there!).