Sentences with phrase «of epileptic patients»

Partial epilepsy accounts for approximately 60 % of all epileptic patients, with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy being the most common form.

Electrodes implanted deep in the brains of epileptic patients have detected single neurons dedicated to the recognition of a particular person in different situations and guises.

But it wasn't until May this year that researchers measured the firing of mirror neurons in humans directly, using electrodes implanted in the brains of epileptic patients awaiting surgery (Current Biology, vol 20, p 750).

Since then more than 100 of his epileptic patients with electrodes implanted in their brains for diagnostic purposes have volunteered as subjects for basic research.

Simultaneously there arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black - haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure.

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.

Team leader Olaf Blanke, a medical doctor who has treated epileptic and stroke patients who have had out - of - body experiences, placed a camera six and a half feet behind the back of each of 14 participants wearing 3 - D video goggles.

Patients with epilepsy often have ECoG arrays temporarily implanted in their brains to determine the location in the brain of epileptic seizures, so the scientists were able to study all the data collected from five such patients on healthy, seizure - freePatients with epilepsy often have ECoG arrays temporarily implanted in their brains to determine the location in the brain of epileptic seizures, so the scientists were able to study all the data collected from five such patients on healthy, seizure - freepatients on healthy, seizure - free nights.

«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.»

Because lack of sleep can provoke seizures, these patients stay awake all night to speed the onset of an epileptic episode and shorten their hospital stay.

Fried led an international team in studying 12 UCLA epileptic patients who had electrodes implanted in their brains in order to pinpoint the origin of their seizures prior to surgery.

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.

This second option inspired neurologist Josef Parvizi, psychologist Kalanit Grill - Spector and their colleagues at Stanford University to conduct a study of 10 epileptic patients.

Nicholas Steinmetz and colleagues found that some mice expressing the genetically - encoded calcium sensor GCaMP6 display brief bursts of electrical activity, commonly observed in epileptic patients and animal models.

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.

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.

Surgery to remove areas of the brain associated with epileptic activity can help prevent seizures in these patients.

Due to the build - up of toxic glycogen clumps in neurons and other cell types, patients with this disease commonly experience severe epileptic seizures, motor impairment, muscle spasms, and dementia.

Professor Patrik Verstreken (VIB - KU Leuven): «Our work shows that increasing specific brain fats at the synapses of patients with a TBC1D24 mutation is a possible strategy for preventing epileptic seizures.

More animal studies would be needed to move this drug toward human clinical trials, but «what we hope is that we could use this drug to intervene in patients who have had an episode of prolonged seizures and give it to them briefly following that episode to protect them from becoming epileptic,» said James McNamara, M.D., a professor in the departments of neurobiology and neurology at Duke University.

Surgery can be an option for a minority of patients who do not respond to medications or other treatments and have epileptic scar tissue that can be removed safely.

The research for the study was conducted on 19 epileptic patients at the UCLA Medical Center, who required invasive monitoring of brain activity prior to potential surgical excision of seizure - causing areas of the brain.

In fact, Upton says, if the cycle of headaches — or seizures, for epileptics — is broken, then the patient may «forget» the pattern of electrical activity that leads to the symptoms.

One third of patients do not respond to medication and an alternative can be surgery to locate and remove the small cluster of neurons that act as the seed of an epileptic seizure, unfortunately such surgeries often fail to bring any relief.

The ability to reliably pinpoint the anatomical source of epileptic seizures, different for each patient, remains elusive.

These unexpected findings may be related to the epileptic phenotype of many pedigrees of patients with early - onset familial AD and to the hyperactivation of neuronal networks in patients with sporadic AD and amyloid - positive nondemented subjects.

A recent clinical study that emerged from their research revealed epileptic activity in roughly 40 % of Alzheimer patients tested.

These findings are probably related to the epileptic phenotype of many pedigrees of patients with early - onset familial AD and to the hyperactivation of neuronal networks in patients with sporadic AD and amyloid - positive nondemented subjects.

Led by staff scientist Keith Vossel, MD, the team of researchers used sophisticated technologies to detect «subclinical» epileptic activity (too subtle to be noticed on standard clinical exams) and showed that Alzheimer patients with such activity had a faster cognitive decline than those without.

Dr. Milner is best known for work with an epileptic patient known as H.M., who had become unable to form new memories after having parts of both temporal lobes of his brain surgically removed.

We implemented a rare variant transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) to search for autosomal recessive epileptic encephalopathy genes in a cohort of 320 outbred patient - parent trios that were generally prescreened for rare metabolic disorders.

«We might have some real insight into the advantages of dampening of synaptic activity that is caused by fasting,» said Haghighi, for example, how fasting can be beneficial for epileptic patients, who can experience reduced seizures when restricting calories.

Vitamin D can improve seizure control in epileptics, relieve memory loss and confusion in Alzheimer's patients, and protect against age - related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness.

The most commonly accepted theory among scientists as to why keto works for epileptic patients is that on the diet the number of ketones in the body spike.

In ketosis, the body is fueled by fat (ketone bodies) rather than glucose (carbohydrates)-- this helps epileptic patients by changing the metabolism of the brain, and the same changes might be beneficial for migraneurs.

You can use this Indian version of ketogenic diet plan for any epileptic patient as well.

We've also referenced service dogs employed by epileptic patients, potentially warning their owners of an impending episode and attracting the attention of others.

But listening to music could help prevent epileptic seizures, according to US study that found the brains of patients with reacted differently to certain types of music than those without the disorder.