Sentences with phrase «from epilepsy on»

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Using a computer model based on direct brain recordings from epilepsy patients, they are the first to show the existence of a network of neural regions that can push or pull on the synchronization of the regions directly involved in a seizure.

The scientists demonstrated the fact that the transcription factor MTF1 plays a central role in this connection using an experiment on mice suffering from epilepsy.

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.

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.»

Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine and the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation Laboratories explored the effects of seizure activity on short - and long - term memory in a rat model of epilepsy.

My project was in neuroscience, working on a model of epilepsy using electrophysiological recordings from brain slices.

What's really necessary, Dr. Gaillard says, is real data on efficacy for each of the medications commonly prescribed to pediatric epilepsy patients — a marked vacuum in research that prevents doctors from using evidence - based reasoning when making medication choices.

A team in Bonn has collected frozen samples from more than 700 people with epilepsy who were operated on over the past 25 years to remove tissue that was driving their seizures.

Topamax, an epilepsy drug from Ortho - McNeil Pharmaceutical, has proven extremely effective on migraines in clinical trials: Half of all patients have reported a 50 percent reduction in the frequency of migraines, and more than a quarter have a reported 75 percent reduction.

Over the past few years, we have begun to see that the brain is in constant dialogue with the immune system and even allows some foreign agents in — discoveries that are shedding new light on everything from epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease to autism.

In the development of epilepsy, inhibiting COX - 2 turns out to be complicated as well. Ray Dingledine, chair of pharmacology at Emory, and colleagues have a new paper showing that COX - 2 has both protective and harmful effects in mice after status epilepticus, depending on the timing and what cells the enzyme comes from.

He oversees the Cerebrovascular Disease and Aging Laboratories, which focus on migraine, stroke, epilepsy and cognitive decline from aging.

In a 2013 TED talk, Dr. Andres Lozano, a neurosurgeon from the University of Toronto, talked about his research and work on deep brain stimulation, a technology used to treat Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and other neurological disorders.

Although it is often suggested that children with epilepsy who are benefiting from ketogenic dietary therapy continue this for at least two years, duration of treatment could be shorter in patients with infantile spasms who become seizure - free; one study reported no adverse effect on seizure outcomes and less risk of growth disturbances when treatment was tapered down after 8 months (15).

It's been fairly well established that women who suffer from premenstrual or catamenial epilepsy improve when they use progesterone, but mainstream medicine never got on board with the treatment.

Our training covers a wide range of topics from understanding epilepsy, recognising seizure types and seizure management through the psychosocial implications, effects on learning and support strategies for children with epilepsy right through to the administration of emergency medication.

Our canine epilepsy section provides information about canine epilepsy, what happens when your dog has a seizure, possible causes of seizures by age, what tests are used to diagnose canine epilepsy, and information from our Guardian Angels on what they would do differently «if they knew then what they know now.»

Senior dogs with Cushings Syndrome often suffer from epileptic episodes and this makes Cushings Syndrome a secondary type epilepsy (more on Cushings later on this page).

From here on PES will be referred to as primary epilepsy.

Players to assemble teams of their favorite Dragon Ball characters and slug it out in explosive, 3 - on - 3 melees that will put the fear of God into any players unfortunate enough to suffer from epilepsy.