Sentences with phrase «intractable epilepsy patients»

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His bill would limit its application to epilepsy, intractable skeletal muscular spasticity, traumatic brain injury, glaucoma, cachexia, wasting syndrome, Dravet syndrome, HIV / AIDS, Cancer, ALS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Crohn's disease, and terminal illnesses if a patient has a prognosis of less than 12 months to live.

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

Although surgery has helped some patients such as Shane, uncontrollable epilepsy remains a living nightmare for patients and an intractable foe for clinicians and researchers.

The device, called the RNS System, was implanted April 17, 2014 in a patient with seizures that previously could not be controlled with medication, or intractable epilepsy, by Werner Doyle, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at NYU Langone.

For several decades, beginning in the 1960s, neuroscientist Roger Sperry of the California Institute of Technology, psychologist Michael S. Gazzaniga of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and their colleagues studied patients who underwent surgery to sever the corpus callosum (the large band of neural fibers connecting the two hemispheres) in an effort to halt intractable epilepsy.

Such inflammation also occurs in patients with intractable epilepsy — those that are least likely to respond to treatment.

She specializes in diagnosing and treating patients with intractable epilepsy and new - onset seizures and has particular expertise in treating women with epilepsy who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.

We have instead focused on patients who are undergoing neurosurgery for intractable epilepsy (which is not sufficiently controlled through medication).

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.