Sentences with phrase «many epilepsy patients»

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and UCLA conducted the study, which implanted electrodes deep into the craniums of epilepsy patients to monitor their brain activity during seizures.

This could help treat childhood absence epilepsy patients who experience comorbidities despite successful treatment of seizures.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.

«Engineer locates brain's seizure onset zone in record time: Discovery breakthrough for epilepsy patients.»

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory...

Nearly 30 percent of epilepsy patients are resistant to drug therapy, so they have the option of surgery to remove their seizure onset zones.

Schalk and Leuthardt quickly recruited 12 epilepsy patients as volunteers for their first set of experiments.

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.

For the past eight years, he and his colleagues have been studying epilepsy patients who have had electrodes implanted in a region of their brains called the medial temporal lobe, as part of a study to identify the source of their seizures.

The scientists hope that new treatment options will open up for epilepsy patients as a result of their discovery.

«New analysis of brain network activity offers unique insight into epileptic seizures: Researchers are exploring «evolving epileptic brain networks» to gain a better understanding of brain activity in epilepsy patients and the roles played by different regions of the brain.»

«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.

Using a novel combination of technologies, including trio exome sequencing of patient / parental DNA and genetic studies in the tiny larvae of zebrafish, the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium found that mutations in the gene CHD2 are responsible for a subset of epilepsy patients with symptoms similar to Dravet syndrome — a severe form of childhood epilepsy that is in many patients resistant to currently available anti-epileptic drugs.

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.

«In most people the centre for these activities lies in the right half of the brain, in many MS patients however it lies in the left side of the brain, as it does in many epilepsy patients,» says the PhD student and primary author Kathrin Kollndorfer.

The surprising finding indicates that antiseizure medications given to epilepsy patients may also help lower or even reverse cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease, a treatment option that could be available relatively quickly.

«Surgery proving effective with epilepsy patients.»

The study is part of a broader effort to collect data on the youngest epilepsy patients — those younger than 3 years old, the age at which epilepsy most often becomes evident.

«Tablet - based tool helps epilepsy patients learn self - management skills.»

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.

Spectrum Health is the first health system in Michigan and among the first in the nation to successfully implant a recently FDA - approved device that uses electric stimulation of the brain to treat adult epilepsy patients whose seizures have not responded to medication.

The scientists found the same changes in deltaFosB and calbindin levels in the hippocampus of Alzheimer's disease patients and in the temporal lobe of epilepsy patients.

Current non-invasive techniques can't detect epileptic areas of the brain smaller than approximately eight to 10 square centimeters, so many early - stage epilepsy patients often go undiagnosed and untreated.

It will allow physicians to precisely identify small regions of abnormal brain tissue in early - stage epilepsy patients that can't be detected today using current technology.

The researchers enrolled epilepsy patients at Wake Forest Baptist who were participating in a diagnostic brain - mapping procedure that used surgically implanted electrodes placed in various parts of the brain to pinpoint the origin of the patients» seizures.

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

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.

The way to do so occurred to Olaf Blanke — a neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at the Brain - Mind Institute, part of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland — a decade ago while he worked with an epilepsy patient, a 43 - year - old woman with drug - resistant seizures who had to be treated with surgery.

According to the authors, the study reveals that brivaracetam daily doses of 100 mg and 200 mg are generally well tolerated and may help reduce seizure frequency when administered as adjunctive therapy in adult epilepsy patients with partial onset seizures.

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.

«How brain surgery eliminates seizures in epilepsy patients.»

Editor's Note: This article originally stated that researchers sometimes implant electrodes in the brains of epilepsy patients undergoing surgery.

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Kahana and his colleagues have long conducted research with epilepsy patients who have electrodes implanted in their brains as part of their treatment.

Neurologists successfully treat refractory epilepsy patients with a special brain surgery that removes small sections of the brain where seizures occur.

But when I went to the Neuro I met these young epilepsy patients who complained of memory problems after undergoing operations that removed part of the brain's left temporal lobe.

Dr. Kurrasch says about a third of all epilepsy patients do not respond to current medications and that hasn't changed in decades.

In 1953, an American epilepsy patient named Henry Molaison had several sections of his brain removed, including most of the hippocampus.

At UT Southwestern, Dr. Das also examines epilepsy patients» quality of life and how research treatments are being translated into clinical practice for these patients.

The National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) was in need of a fresh, mobile - friendly website that served their membership first, while also creating awareness among epilepsy patients and the general public.

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.

The research was conducted with epilepsy patients undergoing an invasive procedure for seizure diagnosis.

Fortunately, there is a group of people who are having their brains stimulated anyway, because surgery is still the best treatment option for many epilepsy patients.

Seizure dogs provide an alarm system for epilepsy patients, and diabetic alert dogs are trained to identify the scent changes that accompany hypoglycemia.

Neurologists have a lot of epilepsy patients.

If it works for epilepsy patients, it follows that it should be helpful for any person trying to get into ketosis quickly.

Twenty epilepsy patients had followed strict low carb diet.

High levels of HHV - 6B DNA in the brain biopsies of refractory epilepsy patients suggest the virus may play a role in a subset of those with this condition.

«Research shows that seizures typically improve in about 50 percent of epilepsy patients who follow the classic ketogenic diet.