Sentences with phrase «lobe epilepsy»

«About one - third of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy do not respond to medications.

I have been diagnosed with frontal lobe epilepsy at 52yo I have tried to do the Keto diet on my own and my Cholesterol level has increased..

Perez EL, Lauritzen F, Wang Y, Lee TS, Kang D, Zaveri HP, Chaudhry FA, Ottersen OP, Bergersen LH, Eid T (2012) Evidence for astrocytes as a potential source of the glutamate excess in temporal lobe epilepsy Neurobiol Dis, 47 (3), 331 - 7 PubMed 22659305

Women and those with temporal lobe epilepsy seem to be more likely to develop psychological problems in response to antiepileptic medication.

However, many people with temporal lobe epilepsy still have seizures despite taking these drugs.

Retrospective studies of people with severe temporal lobe epilepsy reveal that many of them initially have an episode of prolonged seizures, known as status epilepticus.

Tessler S, Danbolt NC, Faull RL, Storm - Mathisen J, Emson PC (1999) Expression of the glutamate transporters in human temporal lobe epilepsy Neuroscience, 88 (4), 1083 - 91 PubMed 10336123

Eid T, Lee TS, Wang Y, Peréz E, Drummond J, Lauritzen F, Bergersen LH, Meador - Woodruff JH, Spencer DD, de Lanerolle NC, McCullumsmith RE (2013) Gene expression of glutamate metabolizing enzymes in the hippocampal formation in human temporal lobe epilepsy Epilepsia, 54 (2), 228 - 38 PubMed 23384343

Heuser K, Eid T, Lauritzen F, Thoren AE, Vindedal GF, Taubøll E, Gjerstad L, Spencer DD, Ottersen OP, Nagelhus EA, de Lanerolle NC (2012) Loss of perivascular Kir4.1 potassium channels in the sclerotic hippocampus of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy J Neuropathol Exp Neurol, 71 (9), 814 - 25 PubMed 22878665

Fredrik Lauritzen Monocarboxylate transporters in temporal lobe epilepsy Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 26 April 2012 Supervisor: Linda Bergersen

A specific type of seizure known as temporal lobe epilepsy appears to be familial in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and is characterized by behavioral manifestations such as fly biting.

26: 12 Kuuryatov A, Gerzanich V, Nellson M., Olale F, and Lindstrom J. (1997) Mutation causing autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy alters Ca2 + permeability, Conductance, and Gating of Human alpha4beta2 nictoninic acetylcholine receptors.

In humans this form of seizure is called frontal lobe epilepsy.

Lauritzen F, Perez EL, Melillo ER, Roh JM, Zaveri HP, Lee TS, Wang Y, Bergersen LH, Eid T (2012) Altered expression of brain monocarboxylate transporter 1 in models of temporal lobe epilepsy Neurobiol Dis, 45 (1), 165 - 76 PubMed 21856423

«Scientists find potential epilepsy drug: New molecule prevents recurrent temporal lobe epilepsy in mice.»

It is a minimally invasive procedure that is proving to be a very effective treatment for people with medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), a common form of drug - resistant epilepsy.

Approximately 80 percent of epilepsy cases are what is known as temporal lobe epilepsy, in which the seizures appear to originate in the temporal lobe of the brain.

Similarly, abnormal brain activity and processing is well known in the field of seizure disorders; temporal lobe epilepsy has been traced to a phenomenon called limbic kindling, in which repeated, intermittent, low - intensity stimulation across the limbic structures of the brain may eventually lead to a seizure.

Britton thinks near - death experience somehow rewires the brain, and she has found some support for her hypothesis regarding altered activity in the temporal lobe: Twenty - two percent of the group with near - death experience showed synchrony in the temporal lobe, the same kind of firing pattern associated with temporal lobe epilepsy.

This helped explain why right temporal lobe epilepsy was a condition long defined by its most prominent symptom: excessive religiosity characterized by an intense feeling of spirituality, mystical visions, and auditory hallucinations of the voice - of - God variety.

I'm in the operating room at University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland with neurologist Thomas Grunwald, who has diagnosed 22 - year - old Jeremy Künzler with drug - resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.

The temporal lobe synchrony wasn't happening on the right side of the brain, the site that had been linked in Penfield's studies to religious feeling in temporal lobe epilepsy.

The guideline found weak evidence that fMRI may be a possible alternative for the Wada test to evaluate the language functions in the brain for people with medial temporal lobe epilepsy, temporal epilepsy in general or extratemporal epilepsy.

Britton hypothesized that people who have undergone a near - death experience might show the same altered brain firing patterns as people with temporal lobe epilepsy.

The easiest way to determine if someone has temporal lobe epilepsy is to monitor the brain waves during sleep, when there is an increased likelihood of activity indicative of epilepsy.

Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico and Centro Estatal de Salud Mental (CESAM), Queretaro studied patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and healthy participants, using fMRI to monitor brain activity in the cerebral cortex while the groups completed an activity known as Sternberg's task, which assesses working memory.

Ten of the patients in the antiepileptic drug - induced psychosis group were female, and ten had a type of epilepsy called temporal lobe epilepsy.

Loss of neurons from the hippocampus, a brain region that processes and stores memories, is a common cause of temporal lobe epilepsy.

For patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) that can't be controlled by medications, a minimally invasive laser procedure performed under MRI guidance provides a safe and effective alternative to surgery, suggests a study in the June issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

At least some cases of temporal lobe epilepsy are thought to start after a single episode of prolonged seizures that occurs early in life in response to any number of events, like a high fever.

Working in mice, researchers at Duke University have discovered a potential new class of drugs that may prevent the development of temporal lobe epilepsy, one of the most common and devastating forms of epilepsy.

There are treatments available for people with temporal lobe epilepsy, including medications to help manage symptoms and, in rarer cases, surgical removal of the temporal lobe, where the seizures originate.

Temporal lobe epilepsy is particularly debilitating because it strikes the areas of the brain responsible for memory and mood.

But, as with many disorders that are intrinsic to the brain, no drugs are available to prevent temporal lobe epilepsy or slow its progression.

What's more, the same mechanisms are likely at play in one of the most common forms of epilepsy, called temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), which targets brain regions responsible for learning and memory.

Temporal lobe epilepsy — where seizures occur in the region of the brain where memories are stored and language, emotions and senses are processed — is the most common form, and can be devastating.

These maps show networks in the brains of controls and patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

But it also revealed novel connections in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, including two - way communications between the premotor and primary somatosensory cortex.

In one instance, they showed structures that plan and then activate movement, which tend to interact in one direction in control subjects, may have abnormal bidirectional interactions in the brains of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

«Temporal lobe epilepsy is a form of focal epilepsy with seizures originating from the brain's temporal lobe.

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

Detection of aberrant hippocampal mossy fiber connections: Ex vivo mesoscale diffusion MRI and microtractography with histological validation in a patient with uncontrolled temporal lobe epilepsy

She had laser ablation surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy in 2012, which drastically reduced her seizures and relieved her epilepsy - associated depression.

In temporal lobe epilepsy, seizures originate from the hippocampus and the amygdala.

Nearly a year ago, scientists at Hadassah Hebrew Hospital in Jerusalem were carrying out tests on a 46 - year - old man with temporal lobe epilepsy, when he began chanting prayers.

In laboratory research, rodent models of seizure activity, typically differentiate between absence seizures (a type of generalized epilepsy, in which electrical activity of the entire brain is affected), and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (a type of partial epilepsy, which only affects one hemisphere of the brain).

Eid T, Hammer J, Runden - Pran E, Roberg B, Thomas MJ, Osen K, Davanger S, Laake P, Torgner IA, Lee TS, Kim JH, Spencer DD, Ottersen OP, de Lanerolle NC (2006) Increased expression of phosphate - activated glutaminase in hippocampal neurons in human mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.

Involvement of IRE1α signaling in the hippocampus in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.

It aims at unravelling the molecular basis for cell death and edema development in stroke, and explores the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease and temporal lobe epilepsy.