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Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids

...ommonly used drugs. Children who have their first epileptic seizure before their first birthday which is also called symptomatic generalized epilepsy - are at greatest risk, according to Anne Berg, an associate professor in biological sciences at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. "We found evidence that...

Inadequate epilepsy treatment

...atients monitored received drugs after their first epileptic seizure, although high rates of recurring seizures meant that more than 75 per cent of the group received treatment at some point....

Music in link with epilepsy

...f Mozart's Sonata K448 have been found to decrease epileptic attacks.Professor John Jenkins, who has reviewed the international research on music therapy, said it was very probable that work by other musicians could also trigger the "Mozart Effect." Patients who had been exposed to 10 minutes of the music wer...

A boon to epileptics

...gh-frequency pulses has been blamed for triggering epileptic seizures, and this is some of the first work using low-frequency magnetism.The ten patients in the Gottingen study suffered an average of more than 12 fits a week but, after the magnetic treatment, nearly all suffered fewer seizures. One patient sh...

Caffeine can induce epilepsy in newborns

...y can increase the risk of their babies developing epileptic seizures or fits.//Studies have found that caffeine may be linked to the development of epileptic discharges in cells from newborn mammals that have been briefly starved of oxygen. A research team ...

Epilepsy can be predicted

... way to predict when somebody is likely to have an epileptic seizure. In most people with epilepsy, seizures occur suddenly and without warning and can lead to disability or even death. //However, a team from Hopital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, believe it may be possible to predict the onset of seizures by...

Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...e sleeping pills Dalmane and Mogadon, Klonopin for epileptic seizures and Arfonad, for limiting bleeding during brain surgery. "He's an inventor's inventor," "Within every company, there is a person or two whose legacy becomes the hallmark of what the company is about, and for Roche, it is Dr. Sternbach."...

A Seizure Late In Life Could be A Stroke Warning

New research suggests having an unexplained epileptic seizure in a person over age 60 as a sign of high risk for a future stroke.// Researchers looked at 4,700 patients who had a seizure after age 60 and 4,700 people around the same age who did not have a seizure. They compared the two groups for subse...

Epilepsy Drug Valproate and Lamotrigine Linked To Malformed Fetus

...ibed to pregnant ladies. For pregnant women with epileptic seizures, often the drug Valproate is prescribed. The new study shows that women who took the drug in their first trimester of pregnancy often gave birth to malformed babies. Data for the study was collected from pregnant women in US and Canada thr...

In Early Epilepsy Delay in medications Recommended

...isable to delay the administration of medicines in epileptic patients. Researchers of the study feel that early treatment in epilepsy do not significantly benefit the patients in having a better quality of life with epilepsy. They have conducted their study on 1,400 patients suffering from seizures, frequent ...

Delay medicine for early epilepsy, says scientists

...isable to delay the administration of medicines in epileptic patients. Researchers of the study feel that early treatment in epilepsy do not significantly benefit the patients in having a better quality of life with epilepsy. They have conducted their study on 1,400 patients suffering from seizures, frequent ...

Researchers discover receptor cells that can cause epilepsy

...garding the cells that are responsible for causing epileptic seizures // . Researchers from Wake Forest Unive...at can be treated to control the expression of the epileptic seizures, especially in children. Reference: Journal of Neurophysiology, July 2005...

Strong Magnetic Stimulation Can Help Treating Severe Depression

...des on either side of forehead. This results in an epileptic spasm and it changes the cerebral chemistry in the...agnetic current is weak and it does not trigger an epileptic fit like ECT. The patient remains fully conscious during the treatment. The Bonn researchers have ...

Astrocytes Found To Cause Epilepsy

...o be involved in the initiation and propogation of epileptic discharges // , which was published in Nature Medicine. Epilepsy occurs when the brain chemical, glutamate, stimulates neurons to act in an uncontrolable way leading to seizures or loss of consciousness. Most of the research has been focussed on the...

PET scans may help deciding surgery for epilepsy

...to guide neurosurgeons to areas of the brain where epileptic seizures originate. Researchers at NINDS have found, in their pilot study, that a marker for serotonin systems was able to identify epilepsy-generating brain areas even in a patient with a normal MRI. In related studies, the researchers have found...

Panic disorder may coexist with epilepsy

...of panic attacks with the clinical features of the epileptic aura, and so must be considered and diagnosed as s...cks, when they have the same clinical signs as the epileptic consciousness, should be diagnosed as partial seizures with a psychic content. After setting out t...

Clues To Identify Psychological Seizures

... or psychogenic seizures are often misdiagnosed as epileptic seizures. The former are caused by psychological c...Because these nonepileptic seizures are similar to epileptic seizures, they can be difficult to diagnose. Three new studies published in the June 13, 2006, issue...

Brain Septum Could Help In reducing Epileptic Seizures

...rophysiology the septum of the brain helps prevent epileptic seizures by inducing rhythmical //electrical activ...by imposing a normal “theta” rhythm on chronically epileptic rats, they could reduce epileptic seizures by 86-97%. The study “Septo-hippocampal networks in chr...

Gabapentin Reduced Menopausal Symptoms as Estrogen – Study Find

...eurontin) was approved by the FDA in 1994 to treat epileptic seizures but has been used off-label for years to treat headaches, shingles pain and other ailments. Scientists hypothesize that gabapentin may reduce hot flashes by regulating the flow of calcium in and out of cells, which is one mechanism for contr...

Father Who Killed Epileptic Son Says He Misses Him

David Carmichael, who killed his epileptic son in July 2004 has for the first time spoken of his pain. In an interview to London Free Press, Carmichael who is at the Brockville// Psychiatric Hospital said he was haunted by his son's memories. "I wouldn't want any family to go through what o...

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