«I was very nervous, afraid it might make things worse,» Vandyke said of the relatively new procedure that was being recommended to her by
epilepsy specialists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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.
Not exact matches
«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.
She is the lead clinician for the ketogenic diet service provided
at the trust and works in the team with a
specialist nurse and
specialist dietician and a co-lead for children's
epilepsy surgery program.