Sentences with phrase «with epileptic»

They challenge hegemony as bougainvillea overgrows a fence, softening compartments with epileptic color and fission.

I'm surprised the game isn't plastered with epileptic seizure warnings as it really is bursting with so much color.

Head tremors often are confused with epileptic seizures; in these cases the patient is prescribed phenobarbital.

Gerard VA, Cornack CN: Identifying the Cause of an Early Onset of Seizures in Puppies With Epileptic Parents.

-- Tips for living with an epileptic dog.

If your older feline suffers with epileptic seizures, the veterinarian must suggest changing his / her diet.

You can also find information about living with an epileptic dog on this site.

The car crash that opens the movie focuses on an argument between Jake (Russell Crowe) and his wife (which you should not do when your young daughter is in the back seat), resulting in a fierce crash that kills the wife and provides Jake with epileptic seizures that take place just when he doesn't need them.

Dr. Milner is best known for work with an epileptic patient known as H.M., who had become unable to form new memories after having parts of both temporal lobes of his brain surgically removed.

«The faster decline in Alzheimer patients with epileptic activity is consistent with findings we previously obtained in animal models,» said Mucke.

A recent study by Michaud examining 200 children with epileptic encephalopathy — epilepsy combined with intellectual or overall developmental disability — and their parents could lead to the development of a more rational anti-epileptic treatment strategy.

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

Researchers have identified a unique metabolic signature associated with epileptic brain tissue that causes seizures.

The discovery of CHD2 as the culprit gene in a subset of children with epileptic encephalopathy is a major step for us.»

Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have decoded a central signal cascade associated with epileptic seizures.

I have experience with epileptic kids, folks on the spectrum, and have done extensive work in physical medicine centers (which pretty much means I've encountered folks with many conditions!).

A ketogenic diet (AKA keto) was originally developed to help kids with epileptic seizures.

In a 2001 study Niels Birbaumer and his colleagues at Tuebingen worked with epileptics who had not been helped by conventional medical therapies.

Not exact matches

I do not debate with people who think we should treat epilepsy by casting demons out of the epileptic person; I do not waste time engaging those medical opinions that suggest that bleeding the patient might release the infection.

Pauline came to us with one arm paralysed, one leg paralysed, and epileptic.

Simultaneously there arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black - haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure.

That is why, as Traversi says, Dostoevsky's hero - mystics are driven by their thirst for this God «into straining the boundaries of human experience, so that their ecstasy inevitably coincides with the dissolution of the personality into epileptic idiocy.»

So now he lays on the floor, with the usual amount of gas, dreaming and having somewhat of an epileptic fit, but I know this isn't the walnuts, as he does this randomly right when he falls asleep and sometimes decides to punch me in the face.

Stakeholders» state that with a recession poised to sweep through the economy, an unstable currency washing out capital security and epileptic power supply forcing a dependence on generators, the hike in electricity tariffs will limit industry growth.

The scientists from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University, led by Peter McPherson, along with collaborators in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Germany, and at SickKids Hospital and the University of Toronto, have discovered that a severe form of epileptic encephalopathy is caused by recessive loss - of - function mutations in the gene DENND5A.

Computer scientists and mathematicians at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University in Valencia have developed a prediction model that can warn epileptic sufferers of an upcoming seizure with 20 minutes notice.

It has been noted that, coincidentally, epileptics treated with the drug lost weight — possibly, says Winkelman, because it may suppress appetite.

«Taken together, our results suggest that SCN8A mutations in people with early - infantile epileptic encephalopathy may increase the risk of SUDEP by creating an environment in which the heart has a higher susceptibility to arrhythmias,» explains author Chad Frasier, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan.

«Using a genetic method, we inhibited MTF1 in the epileptic mice and as a result, the seizures in the animals were much rarer and weaker,» says lead author Dr. Karen M.J. van Loo who is conducting research in the team working with Prof. Becker.

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 - free nights.

«We could play around with introducing new gap junctions into the system and see if it induces an epileptic state,» says Cunningham.

Scientists have crafted a tool for predicting epileptic seizures with equations from chaos theory.

In the case of CHD2, scientists collaborating with the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium used antisense technology to rapidly generate zebrafish larvae with a partial loss of function of this gene, and were then able to detect epileptic seizures in these animals using electrographic analysis (this method is very similar to electroencephalography, or EEG, which is used to analyze seizures in humans).

«The challenge with seizure prediction has been that every epileptic is different.

Working with a team of mathematicians and physicists, Osorio compared the timing and strength of epileptic seizures with equivalent measurements of earthquakes in Southern California.

By comparing this region with the DNA from epileptics from six other families, the researchers gradually homed in on a gene called KCNQ2.

They found that tissue with high levels of epileptic electrical activity was low in lactate and had higher levels of creatine, phosphocreatine and choline, suggestive of abnormal metabolism.

As part of this therapeutic surgery, both epileptic and nearby regions with less or no epileptic electrical activity were also removed.

Current collaborative studies between UIC and Wayne State are working to fully translate this metabolomic signature into a truly non-invasive clinical method to detect and localize epileptic brain regions with high fidelity using MRI machines.

«With this new biomarker, we should be able to detect very small regions of epileptic activity — smaller than a single square centimeter — and we do it noninvasively,» Loeb said.

The next step will be to test it with live cells and the researchers hope eventually to, for example alleviate pain, stop epileptic seizures, and reduce the symptoms of Parkinsons disease, using exactly the required dose at exactly the affected cells.

Triheptanoin is an investigational medicine being developed by Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals for patients with fatty - acid metabolism disorders and Glucose Transporter Type 1 Deficiency Syndrome, which leads to epileptic seizures in young children.

Due to the build - up of toxic glycogen clumps in neurons and other cell types, patients with this disease commonly experience severe epileptic seizures, motor impairment, muscle spasms, and dementia.

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.

As with many other epileptic syndromes, LKS children often resume normal brain activity around age 15, when the brain cells are reaching toward maturation, perhaps spurred by hormonal change.

No one had conducted tests with humans, however, until the late 1990s, when Fried and his colleagues started reporting how epileptic patients reacted to various images.

Since then more than 100 of his epileptic patients with electrodes implanted in their brains for diagnostic purposes have volunteered as subjects for basic research.

To investigate this connection, Freiburg neurobiologist Prof. Dr. Carola Haas and her team compared gene expression in malformed brain tissue with that in epileptic, non-malformed tissue.

Extended imaging sessions at UCLA allowed the statisticians to model links between structures in epileptic patients» brains and to compare them either individually or collectively with each other and with the controls.

In this photograph, an epileptic patient is implanted with depth electrodes to localize the seizure onset zone for possible resection.