Sentences with phrase «pediatric epilepsy»

Agreement between children and parents when reporting anxiety and depressive symptoms in pediatric epilepsy.

In most cases, this diet is efficient in weight loss management and also as a therapeutic diet for pediatric epilepsy.

The first step to managing pediatric epilepsy is accurate diagnosis.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have uncovered new clues to the link between Nodding syndrome, a devastating form of pediatric epilepsy found in specific areas of east Africa, and a parasitic worm that can cause river blindness.

«Uncontrolled pediatric epilepsy can have serious consequences, from potential problems in development to a higher risk of death,» Dr. Gaillard says.

As part of this endeavor, researchers from 17 U.S. pediatric epilepsy centers enrolled in the study 495 children younger than 36 months old who had been newly diagnosed with non-syndromic epilepsy (a condition not linked to any of the commonly recognized genetic epilepsy syndromes).

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.

Dravet syndrome is a severe form of pediatric epilepsy characterized by frequent daily drug - resistant seizures and developmental delays.

After his second internship, Dr. Das completed his residency in neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and then received advanced training in neurophysiology and pediatric epilepsy through fellowships at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital, respectively.

Evidence has shown that the ketogenic diet can be helpful for pediatric epilepsy which has been otherwise non-responsive to medication.

Dr Wilder's diet controlled pediatric epilepsy in many cases where drugs and other treatments failed.

Ketogenic Diet Improves Brain Function The ketogenic diet was developed in the 1920's as a medical approach for reducing seizures in cases of pediatric epilepsy.

But rigorous studies that can transform the anecdotes into data are scarce: Colorado, one of 23 states (along with the District of Columbia) where medical marijuana is legal for adults, recently greenlighted up to $ 8.4 million in research grants on the drug, including studies in pediatric epilepsy and pediatric brain tumors.

A zebrafish model of Dravet syndrome, a severe form of pediatric epilepsy, may help scientists quickly find drugs for the devastating disease.

He is trained in both adult and pediatric epilepsy but focuses on treating adults in his current practice.