«Research shows that seizures typically improve in about 50 percent
of epilepsy patients who follow the classic ketogenic diet.
Not exact matches
I do not debate with people
who think we should treat
epilepsy by casting demons out
of the epileptic person; I do not waste time engaging those medical opinions that suggest that bleeding the
patient might release the infection.
Doctors
who opt not to take the online certification course required to prescribe marijuana can refer
patients to another physician
who may be able to certify the
patient if they have a serious health condition, like cancer, HIV / AIDS or forms
of epilepsy.
The state's tightly regulated medical marijuana program is due to be in place by January, though state lawmakers
who backed the program are pushing for a faster phase in
of the program in order to help
patients — especially children with
epilepsy — now.
This could help treat childhood absence
epilepsy patients who experience comorbidities despite successful treatment
of seizures.
In a group
of patients who underwent surgery for
epilepsy, over half had stem cells where healthy individuals do not have them, according to a study from Sahlgrenska Academy.
The phase III study was conducted among 366
patients with TSC and
epilepsy from 25 countries
who were randomly assigned to either a placebo, a low dose
of everolimus or a higher dose.
«They may not look like a big deal from the outside, but if you listen in to the brain
of a
patient having one
of these seizures, you can hear that the brain is in seizure,» says Josef Parvizi, a Stanford neuroscientist and
epilepsy specialist
who developed the brain stethoscope with colleague Chris Chafe, a music researcher at Stanford.
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
Epilepsy Foundation estimates that 15 to 34 percent
of TBI
patients have post-traumatic
epilepsy while the rate
of post-traumatic
epilepsy rises to as high as 52 percent among TBI
patients who have served in active military roles.
In a recent trial
of 225
patients, completed in September 2016, participants
who took the drug (along with their other
epilepsy medications) reduced their nonstop seizures by 42 percent, compared with 17 percent for those taking a placebo.
«This is a very useful technique in cases in which seizures are difficult to localize with an electroencephalogram or in which a
patient's MRI is normal,» said Jorge Asconape, MD, a professor in the Department
of Neurology
who specializes in
epilepsy.
The researchers first analyzed a database
of EEG recordings taken from 16
patients who had already undergone surgery for
epilepsy.
Loeb and colleagues used a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy to identify the metabolomic signature
of epileptic versus non-epileptic brain tissues removed from nine
patients who underwent invasive electrical brain monitoring as part
of their
epilepsy surgery.
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.
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.
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.
Merkow and colleagues studied 66
patients who were already undergoing intracranial monitoring
of their hippocampus for
epilepsy.
Kahana and his colleagues have long conducted research with
epilepsy patients who have electrodes implanted in their brains as part
of their treatment.
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.
As part
of reporting on neurosurgeon Robert Grossâ $ ™ s work with
patients who have drug - resistant
epilepsy, I interviewed a remarkable woman, Barbara Olds.
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.
Although it is often suggested that children with
epilepsy who are benefiting from ketogenic dietary therapy continue this for at least two years, duration
of treatment could be shorter in
patients with infantile spasms
who become seizure - free; one study reported no adverse effect on seizure outcomes and less risk
of growth disturbances when treatment was tapered down after 8 months (15).
The actual term «ketogenic diet» was coined by a Mayo Clinic researcher named Russel Wilder,
who published the first study
of the diet in a few
epilepsy patients in 1921 (ref).
A 2006 study revealed that up to 30 percent
of patients who actually suffer from psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are misdiagnosed with
epilepsy [source: ScienceDaily].
Notable examples include «H.M. 2009,» Kerry Tribe «s double film projection about an
epilepsy patient who lost his short - term memory in experimental brain surgery and Nina Berman's arresting images
of former Marine sergeant Ty Ziegel,
who was severely disfigured in a suicide bombing in Iraq; R.H. Quaytman's series «Distracting Distance,» which riffs on the physical act
of perception; and Suzan Frecon's huge minimalist paintings, which embrace the labor intensity
of making an art object that is intended to last.
HM Coroner for Oxfordshire — in October 2015 I represented an NHS Trust in a complex, contentious and controversial Article 2 inquest (jury) into the death
of a vulnerable young service user with a learning disability and
epilepsy,
who died whilst admitted to a mental health in -
patient unit.