Sentences with phrase «epileptic patients with»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

Triheptanoin is an investigational medicine being developed by Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals for patients with fatty - acid metabolism disorders and Glucose Transporter Type 1 Deficiency Syndrome, which leads to epileptic seizures in young children.

Due to the build - up of toxic glycogen clumps in neurons and other cell types, patients with this disease commonly experience severe epileptic seizures, motor impairment, muscle spasms, and dementia.

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.

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.

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.

The study included 35 patients, adults with epilepsy who currently take lamotrigine, and looked at long - term dosing using two currently on - market epileptic generic drugs.

These unexpected findings may be related to the epileptic phenotype of many pedigrees of patients with early - onset familial AD and to the hyperactivation of neuronal networks in patients with sporadic AD and amyloid - positive nondemented subjects.

«The faster decline in Alzheimer patients with epileptic activity is consistent with findings we previously obtained in animal models,» said Mucke.

These findings are probably related to the epileptic phenotype of many pedigrees of patients with early - onset familial AD and to the hyperactivation of neuronal networks in patients with sporadic AD and amyloid - positive nondemented subjects.

Led by staff scientist Keith Vossel, MD, the team of researchers used sophisticated technologies to detect «subclinical» epileptic activity (too subtle to be noticed on standard clinical exams) and showed that Alzheimer patients with such activity had a faster cognitive decline than those without.

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.

Head tremors often are confused with epileptic seizures; in these cases the patient is prescribed phenobarbital.

But listening to music could help prevent epileptic seizures, according to US study that found the brains of patients with reacted differently to certain types of music than those without the disorder.