Sentences with phrase «epilepsy patients as»

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

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

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Providing patients and physicians with an accurate way to track and report seizures could lead to advancements in how care is provided for those who suffer from conditions, such as epilepsy — 3.4 million people in the US suffer from the condition, according to a CDC estimate.

The James Lind Alliance have worked with clinicians and patients in this way to identify priorities for research on specific conditions, such as pressure ulcers, alcohol liver related disease, epilepsy and asthma.

The licensing process is underway as some state lawmakers push a measure that would set up a medical marijuana program on what amounts to an emergency basis in order to provide relief to patients, especially children, with severe epilepsy.

It will only be available to patients with severe illnesses such as cancer and epilepsy.

Medical marijuana will be available to patients with chronic diseases including cancer, HIV / AIDS, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis as well as severe forms of epilepsy.

Kerr and his team accomplished this by inspecting outpatient clinical notes from patients with medication - resistant seizure disorder, who were later diagnosed as having epilepsy or non-epileptic seizure disorder, using the gold standard diagnostic assessment, 72 - hour in - patient closed circuit video - electroencephalography (VEEG) monitoring.

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilepsy.

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.

The Epilepsy Foundation estimates that 15 to 34 percent of TBI patients have post-traumatic epilepsy while the rate of post-traumatic epilepsy rises to as high as 52 percent among TBI patients who have served in active military roles.

Although surgery has helped some patients such as Shane, uncontrollable epilepsy remains a living nightmare for patients and an intractable foe for clinicians and researchers.

According to Devinsky, 10 to 15 percent of patients with otherwise unmanageable epilepsy are potential candidates for the treatment; clinical trials have shown that the implants reduce seizures in the treated group by an average of as much as 66 percent after three to six years of follow - up.

«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.

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..

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

Loeb and colleagues used a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy to identify the metabolomic signature of epileptic versus non-epileptic brain tissues removed from nine patients who underwent invasive electrical brain monitoring as part of their epilepsy surgery.

Participants were randomized into four different interventions that would analyze how effectively an acupuncture technique known as electroacupuncture — in which embedded needles deliver weak electrical currents — reduces incidents of hot flashes as compared to the epilepsy drug gabapentin, which was previously shown to be effective in reducing hot flashes for these patients.

However, as early as 2002, Olaf Blanke and others induced OBEs by focal electrical stimulation of the brain's right angular gyrus in a patient undergoing treatment for epilepsy (Nature, vol 419, p 269).

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.

Using brain data crowdsourced from 22 epilepsy patients with implanted electrodes, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania led by Danielle Bassett have developed a series of algorithms that can predict where in the brain a seizure will originate and which groups of neurons it will likely spread to as it grows.

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

As part of reporting on neurosurgeon Robert Grossâ $ ™ s work with patients who have drug - resistant epilepsy, I interviewed a remarkable woman, Barbara Olds.

As a neurologist and epileptologist, Dr. Das is an expert at using EEG technology to diagnose patients with epilepsy, selecting the correct medications, and providing surgical evaluations for qualifying patients.

When a patient with epilepsy experiences increased electrical activity in the brain, or seizures, this could be associated with an increase in a range of behaviors, such as hyper - sexuality, hypergraphia (an intense desire to write), hyper - morality and hyper - religiosity, explained Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology at Missouri University and lead researcher on the study.

The researchers hope this new scanner will improve research and treatment for patients who can't use traditional fixed MEG scanners, such as young children with epilepsy or patients with neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's disease.

To study this, they performed electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings — a technique that detects abnormalities in the brain's electrical waves such as those found in patients with epilepsy.

The stem cells actually started out as skin cells donated by patients with Dravet syndrome, a severe form of childhood epilepsy — so they carry the genetic defect that causes that disease.

Some of the most debilitating symptoms for patients with TSC are those that are associated with the brain, such as frequent seizures, epilepsy, autism and intellectual disability.

Wilder Penfield was the first neurosurgeon to explore the neural locus of epilepsy at the same time as mapping behavioral / memory functions of different brain regions through electrical stimulation in fully conscious patients.

Autism is practically the same as epilepsy, because autism patients also experience seizures as a result of over excitement of the brain cells.

Takeaway: A paleo keto diet using whole foods is just as, if not more effective, than a clinical ketogenic diet using refined, processed foods, whether the patient is a youngster with epilepsy, a young man with type 1 diabetes, or a middle - aged woman with metabolic syndrome.

As far as we know, it is the first time branched chain amino acids have been used in patients with epilepsy and we had to be very cautious with their administratioAs far as we know, it is the first time branched chain amino acids have been used in patients with epilepsy and we had to be very cautious with their administratioas we know, it is the first time branched chain amino acids have been used in patients with epilepsy and we had to be very cautious with their administration.

The similarities and connections between migraines and epilepsy suggest that ketosis, a proven therapy for epileptic patients, might be extremely beneficial for migraneurs as well.

Research has been ongoing at the Mayo Clinic with treatment for patients with neurological disorders that result in disease (e.g. Parkinson's) or in physical impairments such as epilepsy and disorder dyspraxia.

As such, for example, it would not be appropriate for a patient that suffers from epilepsy.

Tramadol may lower the seizure threshold and therefore should be used cautiously in animals prone to seizures, such as patients with epilepsy.

Many people believe seizure alert dogs (dogs that sense and warn their masters of upcoming seizures) or seizure response dogs (dogs that provide assistance to their masters during and after a seizure) can provide epilepsy patients with a greater sense of control over their disorder because they seem to be able to help them avoid catastrophe in public places, such as driving a car.