Sentences with phrase «from epilepsy patients»

The researchers conducted additional studies of the virus using brain tissue from epilepsy patients and showed that the virus does not infect noncancerous brain cells.

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.

Not exact matches

Providing patients and physicians with an accurate way to track and report seizures could lead to advancements in how care is provided for those who suffer from conditions, such as epilepsy — 3.4 million people in the US suffer from the condition, according to a CDC estimate.

The governor wants any law to cover patients suffering from cancer, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, MS, HIV / AIDS, diabetics, and spinal cord injuries.

In a group of patients who underwent surgery for epilepsy, over half had stem cells where healthy individuals do not have them, according to a study from Sahlgrenska Academy.

The phase III study was conducted among 366 patients with TSC and epilepsy from 25 countries who were randomly assigned to either a placebo, a low dose of everolimus or a higher dose.

Kerr and his team accomplished this by inspecting outpatient clinical notes from patients with medication - resistant seizure disorder, who were later diagnosed as having epilepsy or non-epileptic seizure disorder, using the gold standard diagnostic assessment, 72 - hour in - patient closed circuit video - electroencephalography (VEEG) monitoring.

I specialise in treating patients with intractable epilepsy, and we need EEG monitoring to see where the seizures are coming from in the brain.

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilepsy.

«They may not look like a big deal from the outside, but if you listen in to the brain of a patient having one of these seizures, you can hear that the brain is in seizure,» says Josef Parvizi, a Stanford neuroscientist and epilepsy specialist who developed the brain stethoscope with colleague Chris Chafe, a music researcher at Stanford.

When patients with epilepsy don't experience enough benefit from current medications, doctors sometimes treat the disorder by surgically removing the area where seizures arise.

Further analysis including in tissues from more patients with other forms of epilepsy also showed that CLOCK RNA and protein were often significantly lacking in both in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in affected brain regions.

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.

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

Given how long it is likely to take for new medications against epilepsy to be tested and approved, some experts argue that more patients with relentless epilepsy could benefit from recent advances in surgical techniques and various methods for stimulating neurons in ways that make them behave less erratically.

«Applying these analysis concepts to multichannel long - term EEG recordings from 17 epilepsy patients with high temporal resolution allowed us to derive a sequence of functional brain networks spanning several days in duration,» said Christian Geier, a doctoral student working with Lehnertz.

Here, the researchers examined brain functions of patients suffering from epilepsy by using methods that coincided with their medical treatment.

Then a frustrated group of epilepsy physicians invited computer nerds around the world to take a shot instead, providing data sets recorded from the brains of human epilepsy patients and epileptic dogs.

Distinct from epileptic seizures, IEDs can impair memory in epilepsy patients.

The hope is to develop a neuroprosthetic that could not only help patients with epilepsy and TBI but also those suffering from depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other neuropsychiatric disorders.

The researchers first analyzed a database of EEG recordings taken from 16 patients who had already undergone surgery for epilepsy.

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.

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.

He explained that it's likely that these genes do not function properly during development in patients suffering from schizophrenia, epilepsy, or other diseases.

Results from an unexpected quarter is could help neurologists to identify which brain region to remove to eliminate an epilepsy patient's symptoms.

Using brain data crowdsourced from 22 epilepsy patients with implanted electrodes, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania led by Danielle Bassett have developed a series of algorithms that can predict where in the brain a seizure will originate and which groups of neurons it will likely spread to as it grows.

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.

In the new paper, Sahin and colleagues took their observations to humans, studying Purkinje cells derived from three patients with TSC (two also had ASD symptoms, and all three also had epilepsy).

The researchers used two types of data from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and healthy control subjects.

In addition to cognitive problems, patients with X-linked mental retardation (XLMR)-- which includes fragile x syndrome (ScienceNOW, 24 May 2007)-- may also suffer from epilepsy, macrocephaly (an enlarged head), and reproductive defects.

Rice statistician Marina Vannucci and lead author Sharon Chiang, an M.D. / Ph.D. student at Rice and Baylor College of Medicine, and their co-authors detailed their technique to analyze brain activity data from patients with epilepsy and control groups to see how distinct structures in the brain spontaneously interact.

Working with Seattle, Washington — area neurosurgeons, the Allen Institute acquired healthy cells from the cortex — the outermost layer of the brain that coordinates perception, memory, thoughts, and consciousness — from patients undergoing surgery for epilepsy or brain tumors.

A recent paper in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior describes an epilepsy patient who had electrodes implanted within her brain at Emory University Hospital, because neurologists wanted to understand where her seizures were coming from and plan possible surgery.

To evaluate the efficacy of artisanal CBD for patients with epilepsy, Robert Carson, MD, PhD, and colleagues performed a retrospective study of medical records obtained from Vanderbilt's BioVU resource.

In the study, they show how levetiracetam — a drug commonly prescribed for patients who suffer from epilepsy — suppresses abnormal brain activity and restores memory function in these mice.

Alzheimer's disease patients may benefit from using epilepsy drugs.

The neurosurgeons at Penn Medicine's Center for Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery are leaders in breakthrough surgical treatments for patients with movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, tremor from multiple sclerosis or other causes, dystonia, and medically intractable epilepsy.

In addition, patients may benefit from the advanced care provided by epilepsy centers if they continue to have seizures despite treatment with two medications, experience unacceptable side effects or are pregnant or want to become pregnant.

For the trial, researchers enrolled 120 children from 2 to 18 years old with Dravet syndrome, a rare genetic form of epilepsy that kills up to 20 percent of patients by the time they are 20.

For example, a study conducted in his own lab found that forebrain assembloids generated from patients with Timothy syndrome — a genetic disease associated with autism and epilepsy, showed abnormal migration of GABAergic neurons during the development of the cerebral cortex.

The most common form of focal epilepsy is temporal lobe epilepsy, from which approximately 600,000 patients suffer chronically in Europe alone.

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 is important to understand that not only epilepsy patients benefit from this type of diet.

As such, for example, it would not be appropriate for a patient that suffers from epilepsy.

A 2006 study revealed that up to 30 percent of patients who actually suffer from psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are misdiagnosed with epilepsy [source: ScienceDaily].

Long - term outcomes from the PEARLS randomized trial for the treatment of depression in patients with epilepsy