Sentences with phrase «studied epileptic patients»

Persinger was inspired in part by the Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, who studied epileptic patients in the 1950s.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The study included 35 patients, adults with epilepsy who currently take lamotrigine, and looked at long - term dosing using two currently on - market epileptic generic drugs.

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

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.