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Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

...'s National Society for Epilepsy. ``Uncontrolled seizures and drug side effects can have a devastating effec...o experience depression and, particularly when the seizures are uncontrolled, suicides are significantly higher." The most common cause of death associated wi...

Alzheimers Disease Enzyme may Interfere With Brain Function

...e Disorders may explain the increased incidence of seizures in Alzheimers patients and suggest that potential ...ronal sodium-channel dysfunction is known to cause seizures in both mice and humans. In a supplement to the current paper the investigators present evidence tha...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...ations - receive no treatment whatsoever for their seizures . Throughout the world, misunderstanding, fear an...about 80 percent of those diagnosed with epilepsy, seizures can be controlled with modern medicines and surgical techniques . Common diagnostic tests for epile...

Alzheimer's-associated Enzyme Linked to Seizures

...he study might put light on the high occurrence of seizures in Alzheimer's patients and suggests that treatmen...el metabolism, whose dysfunction is known to cause seizures in both mice and humans is altered in the brains of Alzheimer's patients as compared with non-dement...

Genetic Variations Leads to Fever After Smallpox Vaccination

...rees, and about 4 percent of them go on to develop seizures in the weeks that follow vaccination. There migh...fy children who may be more susceptible to febrile seizures after MMR, Stanley says. If we can find ways to identify people at risk and medicate them to reduce ...

Keep a Cool Head on Hot, Humid Days to Avoid Heat Stroke

...t, dry, red skin; high fever; vomiting; confusion; seizures during cooling; and unconsciousness. The blood pressure may be low or high, and lack of sweating is common, though athletes may perspire. The body temperature often will be 105 degrees or higher. The Pennsylvania Medical Society advises immediate t...

Morning Sickness may Signify Lower Breast Cancer Risk

...nd gestational diabetes, eclamptic conditions with seizures and/or toxemia, or extremely severe nausea. "These pregnancy-related factors may serve as indicators of underlying biological conditions that may influence a woman's lifetime risk for breast cancer," he added. The study and its results were prese...

Blunders in Epilepsy Care Cost Lives, and Money UK Report

...t 20%-31% and cost around 134m a year. Epilepsy seizures occur when too many nerve cells send messages at o..., stroke, brain tumours and alcoholism, while some seizures are thought to have a genetic basis. However, no one exact cause has been pinned down....

Vitamin D Deficiency Still Persists in Babies

...le to absorb calcium, and a deficiency can trigger seizures - which, if prolonged, can result in brain damage....le to absorb calcium, and a deficiency can trigger seizures - which, if prolonged, can result in brain damage. Children with darker skin and those who had bee...

INVEGA Receives Marketing Authorization In EU For Treatment Of Schizophrenia

...ly in people with a seizure disorder, who have had seizures in the past, or who have conditions that increase their risk for seizures. INVEGA and similar medications can raise the blood levels of a hormone known as prolactin, causing a condition known as hyperprolactinemia. Blood levels of prolactin remain ...

A Fit of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgery

... type of epilepsy makes the victim suffer numerous seizures lasting 10 seconds each. The girls mother, Jessica Anderson, 23, said, "It was very frightening at first when we didn't know what was going on. She was smiling and grinding and laughing. It sounded very scary. Anastasia's hypothalamus was home t...

Protein Reduction Ceases Alzheimer's Advancement in Mice

... production of tau was retarded, it helped prevent seizures and memory deficits associated with the disease. "Amazingly, even partial reduction of tau prevented memory problems and premature deaths in our Alzheimer mice," said Dr. Erik Roberson, assistant professor of neurology at UCSF. The present treatm...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

... a balance struck between the potential effects of seizures on the developing brain of fetuses and the effects...king this drug suddenly because that can result in seizures and, potentially, deaths." A Sanofi-Synthelabo spokeswoman was quoted: " The appropriate treatment...

Despite Being Effective Electroconvulsive Therapy is Underused for Severe Depression

...is research-proven therapy. The idea of inducing seizures to treat psychiatric disorders has a long history, but it wasn't until the 1950sa time when there were few effective treatments for serious mental illnessthat scientific studies confirmed the effectiveness of ECT. "The 'antipsychiatry movement' and t...

New Strategy Identified for Preventing Acute and Chronic Brain Disease

...hat reducing levels of the protein tau can prevent seizures and neurological deficits related to Alzheimer's disease. The findings, reported today in the journal Science, demonstrate that when tau is removed from mice genetically engineered to simulate Alzheimer's disease, their memory function is retained a...

Potential Of Epilepsy Surgeries Are Not Fully Harnessed Say Brain Specialists

...nsidered surgery candidates. Most have two to five seizures a year despite medication, and have been told to l...according to recent research. Even worse, years of seizures can harm a child's development, sometimes permanently. A Cleveland Clinic study in the journal Ped...

Pediatric Seizure Study Underway in US to Decide Between Diazepam and Lorazepam

...pam and lorazepam, is more effective. Childhood seizures pose a serious problem for doctors. Epilepticus or continuous unrelenting seizures can lead to brain damage or even death if not treated. Now there are two drugs currently prescr...

Brain Cells Activity: New Treatment Target for Psychiatric Diseases

...s well: Excess excitation results in mind-rattling seizures and excess inhibition in depression, as examples. "If this neuron is too excited, people may get manic or have seizures," says Dr. Mei. "Patients with schizophrenia, for example, show symptoms that implicate alterations in inhibitory neurotransmiss...

Nervous Systems of Insects may Offer Clues on Neurodegenerative Diseases

...age they experience neurodegeneration resulting in seizures and paralysis. The nerves of the mutant flies are defective in electrical signaling, which impairs their ability to communicate with one another and muscle cells, Palter said. Our mutant flies may provide a model system to study a class of human di...

Sleepwalking to sex during sleep, a new disorder detected

...h this sleep state. Seven incidents of epileptic seizures during sleep that have brought on intense orgasms, grabbing of partners and violent masturbation. 78 cases of Kleine-Levin syndrome, which causes intense and lengthy bouts of sleep. It's important to know that it's treatable. A physician would d...

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