Sentences with phrase «epilepsy patients at»

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.

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Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and UCLA conducted the study, which implanted electrodes deep into the craniums of epilepsy patients to monitor their brain activity during seizures.

The study — led by James Murrough, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at Mount Sinai — chose the epilepsy drug ezogabine, which was given to 18 patients in a pilot trial.

At much higher doses, benzodiazepines treat epilepsy and anxiety in human patients now, including those with autism.

«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.

Guideline authors noted, however, that the evidence for the recommendations is weak, since many of the studies had relatively small numbers of patients with similar types of epilepsy and were conducted at only one institution, so the results may not be generalizable to everyone with epilepsy.

Dravet patients usually develop moderate to severe cognitive delays and some features of autism, and are at increased risk of SUDEP (sudden unexplained death in epilepsy).

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Center.

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..

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.

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.

When the late Robert Sperry was a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he experimented on patients with epilepsy, and noticed that breaking the link between brain hemispheres affected the ability to perform certain tasks.

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.

The way to do so occurred to Olaf Blanke — a neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at the Brain - Mind Institute, part of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland — a decade ago while he worked with an epilepsy patient, a 43 - year - old woman with drug - resistant seizures who had to be treated with surgery.

More than 80 % of the patients had failed at least two previous epilepsy medications, and approximately 47 % reported failing 5 or more AEDs.

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.

The study included 35 patients, adults with epilepsy who currently take lamotrigine, and looked at long - term dosing using two currently on - market epileptic generic drugs.

This is an electroencephalogram (EEG) of one of the patients with a Dynamin 1 mutation seen at the Kiel epilepsy center.

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.

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.

A recent paper in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior describes an epilepsy patient who had electrodes implanted within her brain at Emory University Hospital, because neurologists wanted to understand where her seizures were coming from and plan possible surgery.

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 neurosurgeons at Penn Medicine's Center for Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery are leaders in breakthrough surgical treatments for patients with movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, tremor from multiple sclerosis or other causes, dystonia, and medically intractable epilepsy.

The Gottfried Laboratory in the Departments of Neurology and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania is looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to study the olfactory system using intracranial electrophysiological methods in patients with medically resistant epilepsy.

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.

Although it is often suggested that children with epilepsy who are benefiting from ketogenic dietary therapy continue this for at least two years, duration of treatment could be shorter in patients with infantile spasms who become seizure - free; one study reported no adverse effect on seizure outcomes and less risk of growth disturbances when treatment was tapered down after 8 months (15).

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.

We at RSC are committed to enhancing patients» quality of care and improving the ability to diagnose and treat seizures and epilepsy.