Sentences with phrase «testing epilepsy patients»

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Dong and his team tested their «memory prosthesis» by implanting the device in 20 patients who were already having brain implants placed to treat their epilepsy.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.

Given how long it is likely to take for new medications against epilepsy to be tested and approved, some experts argue that more patients with relentless epilepsy could benefit from recent advances in surgical techniques and various methods for stimulating neurons in ways that make them behave less erratically.

To test this possibility, researchers screened the medical records of 2630 patients with epilepsy and identified 98 (3.7 %) with psychotic disorders.

Specifically, they tested new drugs in zebrafish, a small, tropical fish genetically similar to humans, whose brains can develop seizures in a manner similar to patients with epilepsy.

This noninvasive approach could pave the way to using optogenetics in human patients to treat epilepsy and other neurological disorders, the researchers say, although much more testing and development is needed.

In order to test hypothesized neural predictions made by the Context Maintenance and Retrieval Model, we employed a free - recall task in 221 patients with medically resistant epilepsy.

26 patients were enrolled in the study but did not complete MRI scanning for reasons including positive urinalysis, not meeting substance use disorder screening criteria, IQ < 80, MRI contraindications, epilepsy, positive pregnancy test, court - ordered ankle monitor that could not be removed, or simply no longer willing to participate.