Sentences with phrase «for epilepsy treatment»

Although drug therapies have been the standard for epilepsy treatment, nearly one half of individuals with the diagnosis use some form of complementary therapy to manage symptoms.

Not exact matches

An outside panel of experts gave a resounding thumbs up to GW Pharmaceuticals» cannabis - based experimental treatment for rare, childhood epilepsy and seizure disorders.

Pfizer also came under fire over drug price increases including a record $ 107 million fine by U.K. regulators for hiking an epilepsy treatment's price by 2,600 %.

It's currently being explored as a potential treatment for certain types of epilepsy as well.

After much research on the Ketogenic Diet, I fine tuned my knowledge of it under the tutelage of the amazing folks at the Charlie Foundation, a non-profit that promotes the use of the Ketogenic Diet in the clinical setting as a non-pharmacological treatment for epilepsy.

There are many resources to help mothers find the safest treatment options for common conditions, such as depression and epilepsy before and during pregnancy.

Parents of children with severe epilepsy lobbied at the Capitol for the Savino - Gottfried bill, they say it allows for treatment with the oil based derivative shown to help with the condition.

About a dozen conditions are eligible for treatment, including, according to the State Health Department, «severe and debilitating» forms of cancer, HIV, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy.

Parents of children with severe epilepsy lobbied at the state Capitol for the Savino - Gottfried bill, saying it allows for treatment with the oil - based derivative shown to help with the condition.

«But the discovery of this network of genes linked to epilepsy opens avenues for finding new treatments.

It is a minimally invasive procedure that is proving to be a very effective treatment for people with medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), a common form of drug - resistant epilepsy.

This may provide a potential explanation for why some children with absence epilepsy may have continued deficits in cognitive performance, despite successful treatment of their seizures.

Administering the epilepsy drug retigabine opened the potassium channels and counteracted much of the toxin's effects, raising hopes of a treatment for these bites.

Resection of regions implicated in the seizure network is a last - ditch treatment for severe epilepsy; using virtual cortical resection, the researchers could test the impact of targeting the regulatory network instead.

Having such control over the brain could one day provide a non-invasive treatment for conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, depression and epilepsy.

The software and strategies are already being shared openly online by the contest participants, and the unique datasets developed for the competition are being made freely available to researchers worldwide by NINDS, University of Pennsylvania and Mayo Clinic to advance epilepsy research and treatment.

The scientists hope that new treatment options will open up for epilepsy patients as a result of their discovery.

Since then, a few clinical studies of cannabidiol have also supported its potential as an effective treatment for some forms of epilepsy.

The understandings gained from this research are part of the necessary foundation for developing treatments related to the causes and symptoms of epilepsy.

Since children of mothers with preclinical RA also had an increased risk of epilepsy, Rom said the findings point towards an important role of the disease itself rather than an effect of treatments for RA.

«In the long run, this improved understanding may enable the development of better treatment options for patients suffering from epilepsy.

Today there are at least eight methods, all with their own pros and cons, and some are on the verge of becoming mainstream treatments for Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and depression.

According to Devinsky, 10 to 15 percent of patients with otherwise unmanageable epilepsy are potential candidates for the treatment; clinical trials have shown that the implants reduce seizures in the treated group by an average of as much as 66 percent after three to six years of follow - up.

Around the globe there is high interest in the use of cannabidiol (CBD), a type of cannabinoid, for the treatment of people with epilepsy, especially children who have treatment - resistant forms of the disorder such as Lennox - Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) and Dravet Syndrome (DS).

Importantly, the development of a new animal model for Dravet syndrome based on reduced CHD2 expression might help to find effective treatments that could improve the lives of thousands of people suffering from Dravet syndrome and perhaps other genetic epilepsies.»

A study published ahead of print in the The Journal of General Physiology has revealed new insights into Retigabine, a known pharmacological treatment for epilepsy.

Introduced in 2007 and initially used to destroy tumors, the Visualase system was first employed as a treatment for epilepsy in 2010.

The study is meaningful in respect to the fact that it calls into question the role of the T - type calcium channel in the reticular thalamus, and is expected to provide an important theoretical foundation for understanding its role in the mechanism of absence seizures, as well as developing effective treatment methods for absence epilepsy.

A better understanding of the function of neuromodulators, such as COX - 2 and TIA - 1, may help identify novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of epilepsy.»

Even if a lesser severity of perinatal asphyxia is accounted for, cooling therapy has increased the number of healthy survivors and there are very few children with epilepsy needing drug treatment.

GW Pharmaceuticals is conducting clinical trials on CBDV treatments for epilepsy, and Chen says several pharmaceutical companies have been in touch with Hyasynth Bio.

A rigorous study validates a cannabis - derived treatment for a rare, drug - resistant childhood epilepsy

VNS already has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for certain illnesses, such as depression and epilepsy.

Other groups are exploring different therapeutic applications of optogenetics, including treatments for epilepsy and Parkinson's disease

«Scientists track down possible new treatment for epilepsy.»

There are treatments available for people with temporal lobe epilepsy, including medications to help manage symptoms and, in rarer cases, surgical removal of the temporal lobe, where the seizures originate.

«Some GPCRs, for instance, are targeted by neurotransmitters, and their functions are compromised in diseases of the central nervous system, so it is possible that optical switches could also be of interest in the treatment of conditions such as depression or epilepsy.

In a small phase I and II clinical trial, Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues elsewhere found that the high - fat, low - carbohydrate ketogenic diet was a safe and effective treatment option for the majority of adults experiencing a relatively rare, often fatal and always severe form of epilepsy marked by prolonged seizures that require medically induced comas to prevent them from further damaging the body and the brain.

Importantly, the researchers only administered treatment with 1NMPP1 for two weeks, which was sufficient to prevent epilepsy from developing in the mice when tested many weeks later.

However, as early as 2002, Olaf Blanke and others induced OBEs by focal electrical stimulation of the brain's right angular gyrus in a patient undergoing treatment for epilepsy (Nature, vol 419, p 269).

Still more applications may yet emerge: Lyrica is also in advanced clinical trials as a treatment for epilepsy and for generalized anxiety disorder.

The precise understanding of the mode of action is thus the basis for developing specific drugs for the treatment of epilepsy and cardiac arrhythmias.

«Currently, surgical resection is the treatment of choice for some patients with medically refractory epilepsy,» Chiang said.

To build the map, Mesgarani's team turned to a group of volunteers who already had electrodes implanted in their brains as part of an unrelated treatment for epilepsy.

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Lamotrigine, a widely used drug for the treatment of epilepsy, is an ideal drug for this assessment, says Privitera, particularly because it has also been the subject of the noted problems with generic switches and complaints to the FDA.

Knowledge of these mechanisms of action is crucial for the development of personalized epilepsy treatments.

«Identifying the precise cause of a child's epilepsy as soon as possible would help us choose the most effective treatment to control seizures early on, which is important for healthier brain development.

Wu and his team have developed several mechanism - based treatments for neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's disease, ischemic stroke, Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy.