Sentences with phrase «epileptic patients»

Most of the available information on human hippocampal theta comes from a few small studies of epileptic patients with intracranially implanted electrodes used as part of a treatment plan.

In fact, in addition to weight loss, the most common side effects in epileptic patients following a ketogenic diet is menstrual dysfunction (5).

In a 1998 survey by researchers at the University of Florida, 10 percent of epileptic patients with companion dogs reported that their dogs seemed to know when they were going to have a seizure.

The most commonly accepted theory among scientists as to why keto works for epileptic patients is that on the diet the number of ketones in the body spike.

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.

These fats are often used by epileptic patients on a ketogenic diet, in order to increase ketone levels while allowing for a bit more carbs in the diet (2).

Persinger was inspired in part by the Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, who studied epileptic patients in the 1950s.

Loyola University Medical Center is offering epileptic patients an imaging scan that records brain activity during seizures.

Moreover, 30 % of epileptic patients do not respond to drugs, so their only hope remains surgery.

No one had conducted tests with humans, however, until the late 1990s, when Fried and his colleagues started reporting how epileptic patients reacted to various images.

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).

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.

These symptoms present the question: Are the hyper - religious experiences of epileptic patients related to specific religious experiences, or do they reflect increased emotionality observed with epilepsy?

«We might have some real insight into the advantages of dampening of synaptic activity that is caused by fasting,» said Haghighi, for example, how fasting can be beneficial for epileptic patients, who can experience reduced seizures when restricting calories.

The final diet that is gaining in popularity for use in epileptic patients is that of the Low Glycemic Index Diet.

To investigate the mechanisms underlying seizures, Klaus Lehnertz, a physicist at the University of Bonn's Clinic of Epileptology, and his colleagues studied brain electrical activity (EEG) measurements taken from 16 epileptic patients with electrodes implanted in their brains.

Results show that epileptic patients who follow a ketogenic diet showed considerable improvements in endurance, activity levels, comprehension, and attention.

We've also referenced service dogs employed by epileptic patients, potentially warning their owners of an impending episode and attracting the attention of others.

In a series of tests, epileptic patients with heightened brain activity in the temporal lobe showed hypersensitivity to religious words and phrases.

Simultaneously there arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black - haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure.

That same year, German psychiatrist and neurologist Alfred Hauptmann administered phenobarbital to his epileptic patients to enable them (and him) to sleep through the night.

House then tested the sheets with two epileptic patients who were undergoing brain surgery for major seizures.

To learn more, neuroscientists implanted electrodes into the amygdalae of seven epileptic patients who were about to undergo brain surgery for their condition.

This second option inspired neurologist Josef Parvizi, psychologist Kalanit Grill - Spector and their colleagues at Stanford University to conduct a study of 10 epileptic patients.

Nicholas Steinmetz and colleagues found that some mice expressing the genetically - encoded calcium sensor GCaMP6 display brief bursts of electrical activity, commonly observed in epileptic patients and animal models.

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.

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.

Extended imaging sessions at UCLA allowed the statisticians to model links between structures in epileptic patients» brains and to compare them either individually or collectively with each other and with the controls.

In this photograph, an epileptic patient is implanted with depth electrodes to localize the seizure onset zone for possible resection.

Partial epilepsy accounts for approximately 60 % of all epileptic patients, with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy being the most common form.

Dr. Milner is best known for work with an epileptic patient known as H.M., who had become unable to form new memories after having parts of both temporal lobes of his brain surgically removed.

For example, the study was conducted on non-epileptic pregnant mice thatmay respond differently to VPA than epileptic patients.

Because the MCTs in coconut oil get shipped to the liver and turned into ketone bodies, they are often used in epileptic patients to induce ketosis while allowing for a bit more carbs in the diet (15, 16).

The similarities and connections between migraines and epilepsy suggest that ketosis, a proven therapy for epileptic patients, might be extremely beneficial for migraneurs as well.

You can use this Indian version of ketogenic diet plan for any epileptic patient as well.

Because the fatty acids in coconut oil get shipped to the liver and turned into ketones, they are often used in epileptic patients to induce ketosis while allowing for a bit more carbs in the diet (13, 14).

I came across a study a few years ago (but couldn't find it again) on vagus nerve stimulation in epileptic patients, and it mentioned that patients reported improvements in mood, so it seems pretty likely that these are reciprocally related.