Sentences with phrase «of epilepsy patients»

About 30 percent of epilepsy patients don't respond to drugs to prevent seizures.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Sleep scientists at New York University have been enlisting the help of epilepsy patients undergoing seizure diagnosis, who already have electrodes inserted into their brains.

Neurologists have a lot of epilepsy patients.

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