Sentences with phrase «epilepsy seizures»

Most pets have their first epilepsy seizures between 1 and 5 five years of age.

In this way, scientists have been able to reproduce the place where epilepsy seizures initiate and how they propagate.

«Brain regions most likely to cause epilepsy seizures: Mathematical approach could pinpoint which brain tissue should be removed during surgical treatment.»

Scientists have developed a new way to detect which areas of the brain contribute most greatly to epilepsy seizures, according to a PLOS Computational Biology study.

«Neurostimulator for epilepsy seizure control implanted in patients.»

In this case, we will talk about hypoglycemia in older dogs, which is also a reason to get an epilepsy seizure.

Not exact matches

The company aims to be the standard tracking and notification technology for a variety of seizures, whether they're caused by epilepsy, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, or another condition.

Also on the list is a smart glove that helps stroke victims recover hand movement and agility, a lightweight wearable that makes it easier for those with epilepsy to monitor night seizures, and a cordless breast - milk pump «that's quiet enough for a woman to use while on a conference call,» the authors write.

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

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 most common cause of the type of seizure that Walsh had that day — known as a grand mal seizure (literally «great sickness» in French)-- is epilepsy.

And some people with epilepsy have devices implanted to tame seizures.

An outside panel of experts gave a resounding thumbs up to GW Pharmaceuticals» cannabis - based experimental treatment for rare, childhood epilepsy and seizure disorders.

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.

Strobe lights can cause seizures for people who have epilepsy.

Brothers Alex and Eric Dolan have developed a smartwatch app that can detect when a person with epilepsy is having a seizure and alert others.

For example, we now know epilepsy is not caused by evil spirits, nor are epileptic seizures caused by demon possession.

For example, we now know epilepsy is not caused by evil spirits, nor are epileptic seizures caused by demonic possession.

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When he was 7 months old he started having seizures and we took him into hospital and they did brain scans which showed he has infantile spasms epilepsy caused by brain scarring from hypoglycaemia from not feeding properly in his first days of life.

Therefore, you should not use fennel if you have epilepsy or any other type of seizure disorder.

Seizures are frightening episodes, but do not mean the child has developed a seizure disorder like epilepsy.

If you have ever suffered from epilepsy attacks in the past or if you have any seizure disorders, stay away from using fennel.

The Seizure and Epilepsy Care Program at Floating Hospital for Children provides comprehensive care for children with seizures and / or epilepsy.

Our team of top doctors excels in finding the cause of your child's seizure (s), including epilepsy, and minimizing such incidents in the future.

In addition, it has been restored for eight additional drug classes, including: anti-depressants, anti-retroviral, anti-rejection, seizure, epilepsy, endocrine, hematologic, and immunologic therapeutic.

«We wondered whether some of those same genes could also cause seizures if they were expressed in the brain and, if so, whether those genes would also place people with epilepsy at risk not only for having epilepsy but also an abnormal heart beat and risk of death,» said Noebels.

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

This study suggests that looking at EEG activity between seizures could help physicians diagnose and monitor cognitive and other attentional deficits in epilepsy.

The study also discovered that microscopic spasms in capillaries occur, albeit with lower frequency, during normal brain function, too, suggesting that one problem caused by epilepsy is that seizures drive these vasospasms to abnormal levels.

New research shows that in a mouse model of childhood absence epilepsy, brain activity is perturbed between seizures.

«Lack of oxygen, not excessive stimulation, cause for half of seizure - related brain damage in epilepsy.»

Scientists have gained a better molecular understanding of the region of the brain in individuals with epilepsy which — due to a developmental abnormality, trauma, stroke, or a growing tumor — has stopped responding to control signals, and this results in recurrent seizures.

This may provide a potential explanation for why some children with absence epilepsy may have continued deficits in cognitive performance, despite successful treatment of their seizures.

The goal of Kerr's team was to estimate the probability of epilepsy versus non-epileptic seizures based on the historical factors reported by the patient to their neurologist.

Their prediction model has recently been published in the article Crowdsourcing reproducible seizure forecasting in human and canine epilepsy in the OUP's Brain.

Suthana and her colleagues worked with 25 people with epilepsy who had electrodes already implanted in the brain for controlling seizures.

«Engineer locates brain's seizure onset zone in record time: Discovery breakthrough for epilepsy patients.»

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.

Intractable epilepsy, number of antiepileptic drugs used, and the number of seizures were similar in all groups.

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

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

Using a combination of the known risk factors for epilepsy and non-epileptic seizures reported in 228 clinical notes the team examined, their algorithm achieved a diagnosis accuracy of 65 %.

Resection of regions implicated in the seizure network is a last - ditch treatment for severe epilepsy; using virtual cortical resection, the researchers could test the impact of targeting the regulatory network instead.

«For people with epilepsy, there are a number of areas of the brain that are really broken — that's the seizure - generating network,» Bassett said.

With further study, this regulatory network could be a more effective target for epilepsy therapies, including implantable stimulation devices that would help quiet a localized seizure before it spreads throughout the brain.

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.

«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 brains of people with epilepsy appear to react to music differently from the brains of those who do not have the disorder, a finding that could lead to new therapies to prevent seizures, according to research presented at the American Psychological Association's 123rd Annual Convention.