Sentences with phrase «prevent brain seizures»

Xavier is in his 90s and resents people calling him an «octogenarian»; he needs black - market meds to prevent brain seizures which cause telekinetic earthquakes all around him.

Not exact matches

The brains of people with epilepsy appear to react to music differently from the brains of those who do not have the disorder, a finding that could lead to new therapies to prevent seizures, according to research presented at the American Psychological Association's 123rd Annual Convention.

If the zinc ions or the transcription factor MTF1 were specifically inhibited in the brain, it is possible that the development of a seizure disorder could be prevented.

Failing this, a good anticonvulsant would prevent the spread of the seizure within the brain and offer protection against possible excitotoxic effects that may result in brain damage.

Changing brain chemistry Unlike with electroconvulsive, or electroshock, therapy, where patients must be unconscious and administered muscle relaxants in order to prevent seizures, patients receiving rTMS (which involves trains of pulses during each session, hence the «repetitive» modifier) remain conscious and seated in outpatient settings.

Researchers hope that someday computer chips implanted in the brain could monitor brain activity and prevent seizures before they start.

When it detects unusual electrical activity in the brain, it sends a charge through two electrodes to stop or even prevent a seizure.

Santhakumar said while researchers who study epilepsy have started to look more closely at how preventing excessive neurogenesis after brain injury could prevent seizures, neuroscientists have traditionally viewed the process as helpful to overall brain recovery.

When scientists were able to prevent the excessive neurogenesis which occurs within days of the injury with a drug similar to one under trial for chemotherapy treatments, the rate of birth of new brain cells went back to normal levels and risk for seizures was reduced.

«Understanding the mechanisms that promote aberrant neurogenesis caused by traumatic brain injury and subsequent seizures may open new therapeutic avenues to prevent epilepsy and associated memory problems caused by impact,» said senior author Dr. Jenny Hsieh, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and a member of the UT Southwestern Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.

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

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.

In a small phase I and II clinical trial, Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues elsewhere found that the high - fat, low - carbohydrate ketogenic diet was a safe and effective treatment option for the majority of adults experiencing a relatively rare, often fatal and always severe form of epilepsy marked by prolonged seizures that require medically induced comas to prevent them from further damaging the body and the brain.

«By interrupting a seizure at the time of its onset, we can prevent it from developing and spreading to other parts of the brain.»

For my personalised approach to periodic fasting, keeping the containment of seizure activity in mind, salts are added to my water and fluid intake is closely monitored to prevent «breakthrough» seizures (by maintaining homeostasis of electrolytes in the brain as I expel urine throughout the fasting period).

The veterinarian will need to administer intravenous (in the vein) anti-convulsion medication to stop the seizure and prevent brain damage or death.

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.