Sentences with phrase «epileptic brain»

«We're beginning to unlock some of the mysteries underlying both the acquisition of a memory in the normal brain, as well as how a normal brain is transformed into an epileptic brain,» said the study's co-senior investigator James McNamara, M.D., a professor in the departments of neurobiology and neurology at Duke University.

The biomarker could also be used to localize epileptic brain regions for therapeutic removal without the need for additional surgery.

Researchers have identified a unique metabolic signature associated with epileptic brain tissue that causes seizures.

Current collaborative studies between UIC and Wayne State are working to fully translate this metabolomic signature into a truly non-invasive clinical method to detect and localize epileptic brain regions with high fidelity using MRI machines.

«Previous studies have used magnetic resonance spectroscopy to look at single metabolites in epileptic brain tissue, but ours is the first to use high strength magnets to look at multiple metabolites simultaneously,» Loeb said.

«New analysis of brain network activity offers unique insight into epileptic seizures: Researchers are exploring «evolving epileptic brain networks» to gain a better understanding of brain activity in epilepsy patients and the roles played by different regions of the brain.»

«Statistics method shows networks differ in epileptic brains: Scientists develop novel method to study brain connections in epilepsy.»

It showed epileptic brains engage other parts of the brain to handle alertness tasks.

«The ketogenic diet is thought to work by changing the way cells produce energy, and for reasons that are not fully understood, this shift in energy production calms the excitability within epileptic brains,» says Rho, professor and a member of ACHRI and the HBI.

Not exact matches

«This may point to a greater plasticity in the epileptic tissue, which to some extent can be compared to the brain tissue of a newborn,» continues Milos Pekny.

After an extensive investigation aiming at the precise localization of the epileptic focus, brain tissue that is damaged due to malformation, injury or other cause, is surgically removed.

Out - of - body experiences normally occur when brain function is disturbed, such as after an epileptic seizure, but it is possible to reproduce the experience in healthy people

«It has also been known for a long time that following transient severe brain injury and prior to an initial spontaneous epileptic seizure, the concentration of free zinc ions increases in the hippocampus.

His Cambridge, Mass., company MC10 is developing sensors that can fit the contours of the brain or heart to monitor for early signs of epileptic seizures or heart arrhythmias.

The Utah team miniaturized electrocorticography electrodes — sensors developed in the 1960s to locate the seizure - causing areas in the brains of epileptics — and encased them in thin sheets of silicon.

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 - free nights.

This large - scale epileptic network comprises various areas of the brain involved in normal brain activity during both seizure - free intervals and those involved in so - called pathophysiological activities such as seizures.

«When different brain regions assume the highest importance within a functional brain network is the key to improving both prediction and control of epileptic seizures,» Lehnertz said.

For instance, magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a neuroimaging technique used to map brain activity and trace pathological abnormalities, such as epileptic tissue.

Fried led an international team in studying 12 UCLA epileptic patients who had electrodes implanted in their brains in order to pinpoint the origin of their seizures prior to surgery.

During certain types of brain surgery, neural tissue must be removed, either because it is tumorous or because it gives rise to epileptic seizures.

For example, neural excitation is thought to induce form constants, the dynamic patterns I saw when I closed my eyes under the influence of peyote; these are also generated by migraines, epileptic seizures, and other brain disorders.

Traumatic brain injury accounts for 20 percent of epileptic seizures, but how or why recurring seizures develop after a severe brain injury has thus far been unclear.

Then a frustrated group of epilepsy physicians invited computer nerds around the world to take a shot instead, providing data sets recorded from the brains of human epilepsy patients and epileptic dogs.

«Imaging scan records brain activity during epileptic a.» ScienceDaily.

The excessive burst of new brain cells after a traumatic head injury that scientists have traditionally believed helped in recovery could instead lead to epileptic seizures and long - term cognitive decline, according to a new Rutgers New Jersey Medical School study.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that halting production of new neurons in the brain following traumatic brain injury can help reduce resulting epileptic seizures, cognitive decline, and impaired memory.

Epileptic seizures can erupt when neurons fire excessively in a sudden burst of energy in the brain.

Sometimes brain scans fail to identify which regions need to be removed to stop epileptic seizures.

Both explore the unique access to the brain afforded by patients whose epileptic seizures have proved resistant to drugs.

The instrument would be implanted in the brain of an epileptic and detect patterns of electrical discharge.

Current non-invasive techniques can't detect epileptic areas of the brain smaller than approximately eight to 10 square centimeters, so many early - stage epilepsy patients often go undiagnosed and untreated.

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.

Surgery to remove areas of the brain associated with epileptic activity can help prevent seizures in these patients.

Network activity in the brain was also normalized, providing additional support for the remarkable ability of tau reduction to suppress epileptic activity.

Moran Cerf at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and colleagues recruited 12 volunteers who had electrodes implanted in their brains to record epileptic seizures.

Professor Patrik Verstreken (VIB - KU Leuven): «Our work shows that increasing specific brain fats at the synapses of patients with a TBC1D24 mutation is a possible strategy for preventing epileptic seizures.

They're also investigating how TrkB and phospholipase Cγ1 transform a brain from normal to epileptic.

Increasing the concentration of specific fats in the brain could suppress epileptic seizures.

«An important goal of this field has been to identify the molecular mechanism by which status epilepticus transforms a brain from normal to epileptic,» said McNamara.

As with many other epileptic syndromes, LKS children often resume normal brain activity around age 15, when the brain cells are reaching toward maturation, perhaps spurred by hormonal change.

Their subjects were epileptics who had electrodes temporarily inserted into their brains to provide information that could guide surgical treatment.

It is characterized by an inflammation of the brain, which can result in neurological and psychiatric symptoms, including psychoses, epileptic seizures and movement disorders.

Since then more than 100 of his epileptic patients with electrodes implanted in their brains for diagnostic purposes have volunteered as subjects for basic research.

But it wasn't until May this year that researchers measured the firing of mirror neurons in humans directly, using electrodes implanted in the brains of epileptic patients awaiting surgery (Current Biology, vol 20, p 750).

After all, epileptic bursts of electricity in the brain alone can trigger everything from desire to ecstasy.

Electrodes implanted deep in the brains of epileptic patients have detected single neurons dedicated to the recognition of a particular person in different situations and guises.

He used these to simulate what happens in different parts of the brain, during epileptic seizure.

The research for the study was conducted on 19 epileptic patients at the UCLA Medical Center, who required invasive monitoring of brain activity prior to potential surgical excision of seizure - causing areas of the brain.

To investigate this connection, Freiburg neurobiologist Prof. Dr. Carola Haas and her team compared gene expression in malformed brain tissue with that in epileptic, non-malformed tissue.