Sentences with phrase «epilepsy patients»

The scientists hope that new treatment options will open up for epilepsy patients as a result of their discovery.

About 30 percent of epilepsy patients don't respond to drugs to prevent seizures.

A high - fat, low - carbohydrate diet called «ketogenic diet» could be used to control seizures in epilepsy patients.

The research was conducted with epilepsy patients undergoing an invasive procedure for seizure diagnosis.

Our multidisciplinary team is expert at diagnosing and treating epilepsy patients whose condition does not respond to medication.

Fortunately, there is a group of people who are having their brains stimulated anyway, because surgery is still the best treatment option for many epilepsy patients.

The study is part of a broader effort to collect data on the youngest epilepsy patients — those younger than 3 years old, the age at which epilepsy most often becomes evident.

It will allow physicians to precisely identify small regions of abnormal brain tissue in early - stage epilepsy patients that can't be detected today using current technology.

The ketogenic has been used to treat epilepsy patients since the 1920s.

It is important to understand that not only epilepsy patients benefit from this type of diet.

Nearly 30 percent of epilepsy patients are resistant to drug therapy, so they have the option of surgery to remove their seizure onset zones.

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

Kahana and his colleagues have long conducted research with epilepsy patients who have electrodes implanted in their brains as part of their treatment.

According to the authors, the study reveals that brivaracetam daily doses of 100 mg and 200 mg are generally well tolerated and may help reduce seizure frequency when administered as adjunctive therapy in adult epilepsy patients with partial onset seizures.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.

High levels of HHV - 6B DNA in the brain biopsies of refractory epilepsy patients suggest the virus may play a role in a subset of those with this condition.

«Prof. Fried's trailblazing research with epilepsy patients at UCLA offered a unique opportunity to collect the necessary data — the activity of neurons located deep inside the human brain.»

In this one, neuroscience professor Moran Cerf shares insights about the human brain gleaned from epilepsy patients undergoing surgery.

Then a frustrated group of epilepsy physicians invited computer nerds around the world to take a shot instead, providing data sets recorded from the brains of human epilepsy patients and epileptic dogs.

The researchers determined that, among epilepsy patients with psychotic disorders, one in seven could potentially be attributed to antiepileptic drugs.

Spectrum Health is the first health system in Michigan and among the first in the nation to successfully implant a recently FDA - approved device that uses electric stimulation of the brain to treat adult epilepsy patients whose seizures have not responded to medication.

Neurologists successfully treat refractory epilepsy patients with a special brain surgery that removes small sections of the brain where seizures occur.

«Tablet - based tool helps epilepsy patients learn self - management skills.»

ResearchKit is being used for a number of different medical studies, including for tracking epilepsy patients» daily experiences and several other trials.

This could help treat childhood absence epilepsy patients who experience comorbidities despite successful treatment of seizures.

Schalk and Leuthardt quickly recruited 12 epilepsy patients as volunteers for their first set of experiments.

For the past eight years, he and his colleagues have been studying epilepsy patients who have had electrodes implanted in a region of their brains called the medial temporal lobe, as part of a study to identify the source of their seizures.

«Such minimally invasive techniques may be more desirable to patients and result in increased use of epilepsy surgery among the large number of medically intractable epilepsy patients,» Dr. Gross and colleagues conclude.

Together they are testing epilepsy patients» memories to reveal the brain mechanisms that underlie image recognition.

What's really necessary, Dr. Gaillard says, is real data on efficacy for each of the medications commonly prescribed to pediatric epilepsy patients — a marked vacuum in research that prevents doctors from using evidence - based reasoning when making medication choices.

Current non-invasive techniques can't detect epileptic areas of the brain smaller than approximately eight to 10 square centimeters, so many early - stage epilepsy patients often go undiagnosed and untreated.

The researchers enrolled epilepsy patients at Wake Forest Baptist who were participating in a diagnostic brain - mapping procedure that used surgically implanted electrodes placed in various parts of the brain to pinpoint the origin of the patients» seizures.

By the time epilepsy patient Erika Fleck came to Loyola Medicine for a second opinion, she was having three or four seizures a week and hadn't been able to drive her two young children for five years.

In 1953, an American epilepsy patient named Henry Molaison had several sections of his brain removed, including most of the hippocampus.

At UT Southwestern, Dr. Das also examines epilepsy patients» quality of life and how research treatments are being translated into clinical practice for these patients.

The Ketogenic diet is a high - fat, low - carb diet plan, which was originally designed in the 1920s for epilepsy patients by Dr. Henry Geyelin.

The actual term «ketogenic diet» was coined by a Mayo Clinic researcher named Russel Wilder, who published the first study of the diet in a few epilepsy patients in 1921 (ref).

UCB, Inc., and Canine Assistants today announced a multi-year partnership to sponsors seizure response dogs for epilepsy patients across the U.S..

But when I went to the Neuro I met these young epilepsy patients who complained of memory problems after undergoing operations that removed part of the brain's left temporal lobe.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory...

Editor's Note: This article originally stated that researchers sometimes implant electrodes in the brains of epilepsy patients undergoing surgery.

Using a computer model based on direct brain recordings from epilepsy patients, they are the first to show the existence of a network of neural regions that can push or pull on the synchronization of the regions directly involved in a seizure.

«New analysis of brain network activity offers unique insight into epileptic seizures: Researchers are exploring «evolving epileptic brain networks» to gain a better understanding of brain activity in epilepsy patients and the roles played by different regions of the brain.»

Following that report, grid cells were also directly detected in human epilepsy patients.

The National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) was in need of a fresh, mobile - friendly website that served their membership first, while also creating awareness among epilepsy patients and the general public.

«In most people the centre for these activities lies in the right half of the brain, in many MS patients however it lies in the left side of the brain, as it does in many epilepsy patients,» says the PhD student and primary author Kathrin Kollndorfer.

The researchers were able to carry out their work because 41 epilepsy patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center were willing to participate.

Sleep scientists at New York University have been enlisting the help of epilepsy patients undergoing seizure diagnosis, who already have electrodes inserted into their brains.