Sentences with phrase «epilepsy patients with»

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.

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

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.

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 a novel combination of technologies, including trio exome sequencing of patient / parental DNA and genetic studies in the tiny larvae of zebrafish, the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium found that mutations in the gene CHD2 are responsible for a subset of epilepsy patients with symptoms similar to Dravet syndrome — a severe form of childhood epilepsy that is in many patients resistant to currently available anti-epileptic drugs.

«Applying these analysis concepts to multichannel long - term EEG recordings from 17 epilepsy patients with high temporal resolution allowed us to derive a sequence of functional brain networks spanning several days in duration,» said Christian Geier, a doctoral student working with Lehnertz.

Not exact matches

Developed by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, the pill will be used by patients with epilepsy to control seizures.

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 technology has proved to be quite effective in studies — Embrace's algorithm detected 100 % of the seizures in a multi-site clinical study of 135 patients diagnosed with epilepsy.

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.

This article discusses these effects and makes recommendations for gynecologic and obstetric care of patients with epilepsy, with particular focus on pregnancy.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- People with AIDS and parents of children with severe epilepsy are pressuring Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign legislation giving critically ill patients early access to medical marijuana before New York's new medical cannabis program begins.

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.

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.

People with AIDS and parents of children with severe epilepsy are pressuring Cuomo to sign legislation giving critically ill patients early access to medical marijuana before New York's new medical cannabis program begins.

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.

ALBANY (AP) People with AIDS and parents of children with severe epilepsy are pressuring Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign legislation giving critically ill patients early access to medical marijuana before New York's new medical cannabis program begins.

«New findings about stem cells in the brain of patients with epilepsy.»

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.

I specialise in treating patients with intractable epilepsy, and we need EEG monitoring to see where the seizures are coming from in the brain.

In the meantime, a majority of those patients are misdiagnosed with epilepsy and treated inappropriately with anti-epileptic medications.

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

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.

«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.

«About one - third of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy do not respond to medications.

When patients with epilepsy don't experience enough benefit from current medications, doctors sometimes treat the disorder by surgically removing the area where seizures arise.

Still, after 15 years of treating patients with epilepsy either with oral medications that don't always work but sometimes have side effects, or with surgery that requires removing brain tissue, Liu said she is eager to find a better approach.

Further analysis including in tissues from more patients with other forms of epilepsy also showed that CLOCK RNA and protein were often significantly lacking in both in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in affected brain regions.

Patients with epilepsy often have ECoG arrays temporarily implanted in their brains to determine the location in the brain of epileptic seizures, so the scientists were able to study all the data collected from five such patients on healthy, seizure - freePatients with epilepsy often have ECoG arrays temporarily implanted in their brains to determine the location in the brain of epileptic seizures, so the scientists were able to study all the data collected from five such patients on healthy, seizure - freepatients on healthy, seizure - free nights.

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.

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.

Given how long it is likely to take for new medications against epilepsy to be tested and approved, some experts argue that more patients with relentless epilepsy could benefit from recent advances in surgical techniques and various methods for stimulating neurons in ways that make them behave less erratically.

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.

Here, the researchers examined brain functions of patients suffering from epilepsy by using methods that coincided with their medical treatment.

In addition, the creation of a zebrafish model for CHD2 encephalopathy may facilitate the discovery of new drugs that can treat patients with this form of epilepsy.

«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 report their experience with MRI - guided SLAH in 13 adult patients with epilepsy mapped to a part of the brain called the mesial temporal lobe.

To test this possibility, researchers screened the medical records of 2630 patients with epilepsy and identified 98 (3.7 %) with psychotic disorders.

The hope is to develop a neuroprosthetic that could not only help patients with epilepsy and TBI but also those suffering from depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other neuropsychiatric disorders.

It also revealed synaptic loss in three patients with epilepsy compared to healthy individuals.

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..

Patients with the disorder have epilepsy, autism and heart problems.

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

«Surgery proving effective with epilepsy patients.»

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.

NYU Langone Medical Center last month became the first hospital outside of a clinical trial site to implant a pacemaker - like device in the brain that may be a game - changer for patients with epilepsy.