Sentences with phrase «human epilepsy patients»

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.

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At much higher doses, benzodiazepines treat epilepsy and anxiety in human patients now, including those with autism.

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Center.

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).

Specifically, they tested new drugs in zebrafish, a small, tropical fish genetically similar to humans, whose brains can develop seizures in a manner similar to patients with epilepsy.

Penfield stimulated the brain with electricity in patients undergoing epilepsy surgery, and used the results to draw a â $ œmotor homunculusâ $: a distorted representation of the human body within the brain.

This noninvasive approach could pave the way to using optogenetics in human patients to treat epilepsy and other neurological disorders, the researchers say, although much more testing and development is needed.