Sentences with phrase «human epileptics»

Bromide was used to treat human epileptics as early as 1857.

TheDogPress.com recently ran something about that same university discovering a gene in Rhodesian Ridgebacks that rescue human epileptics # 1 but right now I want to tell you about the lung disease research in dogs.

Those studies (aimed at developing the medication for human epileptics) were suspended when it was found that the drug affected smokers differently than non-smokers.

Not exact matches

That is why, as Traversi says, Dostoevsky's hero - mystics are driven by their thirst for this God «into straining the boundaries of human experience, so that their ecstasy inevitably coincides with the dissolution of the personality into epileptic idiocy.»

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..

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 the case of CHD2, scientists collaborating with the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium used antisense technology to rapidly generate zebrafish larvae with a partial loss of function of this gene, and were then able to detect epileptic seizures in these animals using electrographic analysis (this method is very similar to electroencephalography, or EEG, which is used to analyze seizures in humans).

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.

Already No 4, it reveals the intricacy of the human mind through the experiences of Neil before, during and after neurosurgery to end his epileptic seizures.

The demand for such diverse intersections between human and machine is huge: At the University Hospital Freiburg, for instance, it could be used for early detection of 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.

No one had conducted tests with humans, however, until the late 1990s, when Fried and his colleagues started reporting how epileptic patients reacted to various images.

But it wasn't until May this year that researchers measured the firing of mirror neurons in humans directly, using electrodes implanted in the brains of epileptic patients awaiting surgery (Current Biology, vol 20, p 750).

Why does a structural irregularity in the temporal lobe make humans more susceptible to epileptic seizures?

On the other end of the excitation - inhibition balance, ketones increase GABA in the synapses (where neurotransmitters are released) of rats and in the brains of some (but not all) epileptic humans subjects.

If you know a person with epilepsy, epileptic seizures in dogs are very similar to epilepsy in humans.

As in humans, some epileptic pets are resistant to all medications that your veterinarian might prescribe.

New therapies are bringing more hope to epileptic dogs and their humans.

If a dog falls down having an epileptic fit within half an hour, ten days, or a month of vaccination, the vet very often fails to suspect a link — even though vaccines are known to cause epilepsy, and the human Vaccine Damage Compensation Unit has paid up to # 30,000 to parents whose children were made epileptic by vaccines.