Sentences with phrase «epilepsy patients who»

«Research shows that seizures typically improve in about 50 percent of epilepsy patients who follow the classic ketogenic diet.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Notable examples include «H.M. 2009,» Kerry Tribe «s double film projection about an epilepsy patient who lost his short - term memory in experimental brain surgery and Nina Berman's arresting images of former Marine sergeant Ty Ziegel, who was severely disfigured in a suicide bombing in Iraq; R.H. Quaytman's series «Distracting Distance,» which riffs on the physical act of perception; and Suzan Frecon's huge minimalist paintings, which embrace the labor intensity of making an art object that is intended to last.

Not exact matches

Dong and his team tested their «memory prosthesis» by implanting the device in 20 patients who were already having brain implants placed to treat their epilepsy.

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.

I do not debate with people who think we should treat epilepsy by casting demons out of the epileptic person; I do not waste time engaging those medical opinions that suggest that bleeding the patient might release the infection.

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.

The state's tightly regulated medical marijuana program is due to be in place by January, though state lawmakers who backed the program are pushing for a faster phase in of the program in order to help patients — especially children with epilepsy — now.

In a group of patients who underwent surgery for epilepsy, over half had stem cells where healthy individuals do not have them, according to a study from Sahlgrenska Academy.

The phase III study was conducted among 366 patients with TSC and epilepsy from 25 countries who were randomly assigned to either a placebo, a low dose of everolimus or a higher dose.

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.

«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.

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.

In a recent trial of 225 patients, completed in September 2016, participants who took the drug (along with their other epilepsy medications) reduced their nonstop seizures by 42 percent, compared with 17 percent for those taking a placebo.

«This is a very useful technique in cases in which seizures are difficult to localize with an electroencephalogram or in which a patient's MRI is normal,» said Jorge Asconape, MD, a professor in the Department of Neurology who specializes in epilepsy.

The researchers first analyzed a database of EEG recordings taken from 16 patients who had already undergone surgery for epilepsy.

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.

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.

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.

For several decades, beginning in the 1960s, neuroscientist Roger Sperry of the California Institute of Technology, psychologist Michael S. Gazzaniga of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and their colleagues studied patients who underwent surgery to sever the corpus callosum (the large band of neural fibers connecting the two hemispheres) in an effort to halt intractable epilepsy.

Merkow and colleagues studied 66 patients who were already undergoing intracranial monitoring of their hippocampus for epilepsy.

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.

The need for effective generics is essential to some patients who need daily medication to treat serious conditions like epilepsy.

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

She specializes in diagnosing and treating patients with intractable epilepsy and new - onset seizures and has particular expertise in treating women with epilepsy who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.

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.

In the study, they show how levetiracetam — a drug commonly prescribed for patients who suffer from epilepsy — suppresses abnormal brain activity and restores memory function in these mice.

We have instead focused on patients who are undergoing neurosurgery for intractable epilepsy (which is not sufficiently controlled through 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.

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).

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).

A 2006 study revealed that up to 30 percent of patients who actually suffer from psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are misdiagnosed with epilepsy [source: ScienceDaily].

HM Coroner for Oxfordshire — in October 2015 I represented an NHS Trust in a complex, contentious and controversial Article 2 inquest (jury) into the death of a vulnerable young service user with a learning disability and epilepsy, who died whilst admitted to a mental health in - patient unit.