Sentences with phrase «prevent epilepsy»

«Our goal is to prevent epilepsy before it starts, rather than trying to reverse the problem after it's too late.

We want to know if we can prevent epilepsy by avoiding or reversing the chronic inflammation.»

«Animal study shows promising path to prevent epilepsy.»

Importantly, the researchers only administered treatment with 1NMPP1 for two weeks, which was sufficient to prevent epilepsy from developing in the mice when tested many weeks later.

Long term, this research provides a molecular target for developing the first drugs to prevent epilepsy.

This is critical if we are to develop new treatments to prevent epilepsy from developing after a head injury, stroke, or brain tumor.»

Sea lions may even prove useful for testing to treat or prevent epilepsy, he says: «I'm impressed by how the investigators contended successfully with the limitations and constraints of experimenting with wild animals.»

«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.

However, treatment with 1NMPP1 after the prolonged period of seizures prevented epilepsy in the genetically altered but not the normal mice.

Duke Medicine researchers have identified a receptor in the nervous system that may be key to preventing epilepsy following a prolonged period of seizures.

The PREVeNT trial (Preventing epilepsy using vigabatrin in infants with tuberous sclerosis co...

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Nevertheless, they were soon claiming that circumcision cured epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, elephantiasis, tuberculosis, eczema, bed - wetting, hip - joint disease, fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse, wet dreams, hernia, headaches, nervousness, hysteria, poor eyesight, idiocy, mental retardation, and insanity.4 In fact, no procedure in the history of medicine has been claimed to cure and prevent more diseases than circumcision.

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.

While she does not believe music would replace current epilepsy therapy, Charyton said this research suggests music might be a novel intervention used in conjunction with traditional treatment to help prevent seizures in people with epilepsy.

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.

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.

«We now need longitudinal studies to confirm these findings, because if true, it may be possible to design interventions to help prevent mental health problems in some people with epilepsy.»

In future studies, the researchers hope to determine the exact time window in which TrkB signaling needs to be repressed to prevent the onset of epilepsy.

«Our findings highlight an important strategy for preventing sudden unexpected death in epilepsy — that «back is best,»» Tao said.

«This study opens a promising new avenue of research into treatments that may prevent the development of epilepsy,» said Vicky Whittemore, PhD, a program director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who oversees the grants that funded this study.

If the drug stopped the genetically altered mice from becoming epileptic, this genetic approach would prove that inhibiting TrkB prevents the onset of epilepsy.

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.

«Scientists find potential epilepsy drug: New molecule prevents recurrent temporal lobe epilepsy in mice.»

Delving into the uncharted domains of the brain, they hope to uncover the mechanisms underlying brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson?s, as well as epilepsy, stroke, and other neurological disorders, and to find ways of preventing or intervening the disease process.

VPA has been used to treat epilepsy for more than half a century and also is prescribed to treat bipolar disorder and to prevent migraine headaches, he said.

The findings point to urethane or a derivative as a potential therapeutic for preventing organophosphate - triggered seizures from developing into epilepsy.

«Running prevents postnatal side effects of epilepsy drugs in mice.»

October 27, 2011 Drug treatment shows promise for brain blood vessel abnormality A drug treatment has been proven to prevent lesions from cerebral cavernous malformation — a brain blood vessel abnormality that can cause bleeding, epilepsy and stroke — for the first time in a new study.

Brain Disorder Prevention by fueling the body and brain from ketones, instead of glucose, brain disorder such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and epilepsy can be prevented and treated.

Other studies have shown that glycine treatments can help to prevent seizures associated with epilepsy 4 5.

As an anticonvulsant, it is used to prevent recurrent seizures and treat epilepsy in dogs and cats.

Do you have a history of seizures, blackouts or fainting, convulsions or epilepsy or take medications to prevent them?

History of seizures, blackouts, fruiting, convulsions or epilepsy or take medication to prevent them?