Guideline authors noted, however, that the evidence for the recommendations is weak, since many of the studies had relatively small numbers of patients with
similar types of epilepsy and were conducted at only one institution, so the results may not be generalizable to everyone with epilepsy.
Not exact matches
But Mucke, director
of the Gladstone Institute
of Neurological Disease at the University
of California, San Francisco, and colleagues believe they may finally have pinpointed the cause
of these puzzling personality twists as well as other cognitive deficits associated with Alzheimer's: petite mal (nonconvulsive) seizures
similar to those exhibited in some
types of epilepsy.
The most common is heart disease, but they also have trick knees (luxating patellas), hip dysplasia, a disease that causes paralysis
of the spine, another disease
similar to
epilepsy called Episodic Falling, ear problems and deafness, many
types of eye problems, and about half
of them have a severe blood disease.