Sentences with phrase «epileptics who»

This is in line with what's been reported in people with epilepsy: some epileptics who experience seizure remission on a KD choose to abandon the diet, but when seizures return, they're less frequent and severe than before.

In a 2001 study Niels Birbaumer and his colleagues at Tuebingen worked with epileptics who had not been helped by conventional medical therapies.

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

Videos include Rashaad Newsome's gay «vogue» dancing, Kelly Nipper's slow masked witch dance, Kerry Tribe's two - channel history of an epileptic who underwent radical surgery, and Jesse Aron Green's forlorn gym class, inspired by a nineteenth - century psychiatrist's «cure» for sexual desire.

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.

To the father of the epileptic boy he says, «Everything is possible to him who has faith.»

I am forever grateful that we didn't lose him but... We now have a 13 yr old son who can not speak, can not feed himself or use the toilet, is visually impaired and severely cognitively inpaired and has uncontrolled and life - threatening epileptic seizures.

Super-fit solicitor, 25, who was prone to epileptic seizures drowned in the bath after «suffering a fit»...

Howard Unger, whose medication levels in his blood were far below the prescribed level, stands accused of crashing into a group of trick - or - treaters on a sidewalk in The Bronx near Morris Park and Bogart Avenues around 5 p.m. last Halloween after he had an epileptic seizure, killing 65 - year - old Louis Perez, his 10 - year - old granddaughter Nyanna Aquil, and 24 - year - old Kristjan Leka, who was hit after pushing his fiancée out of the way, officials said.

You don't have to like him because he is not your brother; ethnic bigots like you will never see anything good in his government, when your brother who speaks like someone who suffers from cerebral palsy was there, long queues of vehicles were a daily sight at petrol stations, epileptic power supply a norm, human rights violations unprecedented etc..

Team leader Olaf Blanke, a medical doctor who has treated epileptic and stroke patients who have had out - of - body experiences, placed a camera six and a half feet behind the back of each of 14 participants wearing 3 - D video goggles.

«Using a genetic method, we inhibited MTF1 in the epileptic mice and as a result, the seizures in the animals were much rarer and weaker,» says lead author Dr. Karen M.J. van Loo who is conducting research in the team working with Prof. Becker.

When he directed these fields toward the temporal lobes, Persinger's helmet induced the sort of mystical, free - of - the - body experiences common to right temporal lobe epileptics, meditators, and people who have had near - death experiences.

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.

They have tested the system — which could also help patients who suffer from severe epileptic seizures — in rats and are now planning to begin human trials.

In my research I found a case study of a woman who had an orgasm each time she brushed her teeth (followed by a mild epileptic seizure).

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.

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.

More animal studies would be needed to move this drug toward human clinical trials, but «what we hope is that we could use this drug to intervene in patients who have had an episode of prolonged seizures and give it to them briefly following that episode to protect them from becoming epileptic,» said James McNamara, M.D., a professor in the departments of neurobiology and neurology at Duke University.

Surgery can be an option for a minority of patients who do not respond to medications or other treatments and have epileptic scar tissue that can be removed safely.

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.

«Our findings confirmed the presence of serious dysfunction of the neuronal networks affected by Alzheimer's disease and confirmed our hypothesis that epileptic phenomena are an important component of that disturbance,» says Cole, who is a professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

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

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.

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.

Because the underlying molecular mechanisms are unclear, there are currently no effective treatments for affected children of epileptic mothers who took antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy.

«Currently, the children of epileptic women who take VPA during pregnancy suffer cognitive deficiencies without any available methods for prevention or treatment,» says senior study author Kinichi Nakashima of Kyushu University.

«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.

In addition, those who suffer from seizures of any kind should stay away from this alternative sweetener as it can increase the frequency of epileptic attacks.

They chose 14 epileptic children in the Shenzhen Children's Hospital at or under three years of age as treatment subjects who were convulsing more than four times per week despite treatment using up to three anti-epileptic drugs.

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

It mentions how the ketogenic diet was first created by Dr. Russel Wilder in 1923 at the Mayo Clinic for successfully treating epileptic children who weren't responding to existing medical interventions.

The ketogenic diet was first created during the 1920s to successfully help epileptic children who were not responding to conventional medical treatments.

I am epileptic but its under control my doctor who already cut my pills by half...

Most of the film is about a love story between down and out Andrew and epileptic Sam, who is making her way through life while keeping her disability a secret and trying to connect to someone besides her loving and yet embarrassing mother.

In the hands of Holmer, who dabbles with on - the - table issues — «the fits» refers to an epileptic epidemic plaguing the dancers, theorized as a symptom of the rec center's water — and magical realism to turn a simple story into an electrifying metaphor for growing up female.

Hüller, who previously played an epileptic student mistakenly believed to be possessed by the devil in Requiem, excels as a woman plagued by other demons.

Italian writer - director Marco Bellocchio burst on the international film scene in 1965 with this savage, dark - hued look at a psychopathic young epileptic (Lou Castel) who embarks on a murderous campaign against his own family.

... except for «all idiots, imbeciles, feeble - minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority; persons with chronic alcoholism; paupers; professional beggars; vagrants; persons afflicted with tuberculosis in any form or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who practice polygamy or believe in or advocate the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States.»

A story involving alien visitors from outer space, an epileptic kid who doesn't really know where he came from, knackeries and dead horses falling a hundred sideways miles, abandoned prisons, a shadow play, moons and stars, and jumping from a bridge into a flood should probably begin with a big explosion in the sky about fourteen billion years ago.

Tinkers is about a man on his death bed who revisits his father, an «epileptic, itinerant peddler,» through memory.

Some special needs that we often address during boarding include: separation anxiety, dogs with neurological issues who require bladder care or expression, specific medication dosing (Diabetics, Epileptics), Addisonians, and many more.

Also known as «seizure dogs,» these animals are trained to respond to someone who's about to have as an epileptic seizure.

These dogs are trained to alert for things like when an epileptic is about to have a seizure, if someone with diabetes has their sugar dropping into the dangerous range or even someone who doesn't know they have cancer.

Epileptic Dog With Elevated Liver Enzymes Hello, I have a 9 year old Lhasa Apso who has been on Phenobarbital and Potassium Bromide for the past 4 1/2 years.

From a blind Shih Tzu named Winston to a dog - aggressive epileptic pup named Hersey, the organization does exactly what its namesake states: It protects the dogs who have no one else to protect them.

A Staffordshire Bull Terrier who senses its owner's nocturnal epileptic fits needs treatment for its painful legs.

Dogs who are ill, as epileptics certainly are, already have major challenges to their immune system, just dealing with epilepsy.

Mainly, experts believe that a person who receives a seizure response dog should be a clearly diagnosed epileptic, with PNES ruled out ahead of time.