On February 14, fancy restaurants will be booked solid, florists will do their best business of the year, and children’s backpacks will be stuffed full of heart-shaped cards from classmates. And it’s all thanks to St. Valentine. Wait, epilepsy? Epilepsy was once known as St. Valentine’s Malady. The faithful used to invoke him in protection against epileptic […]
Around three-quarters of patients who have a sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) are found lying in the prone position, show meta-analysis findings. The meta-analysis confirms results from previous case series and suggests that SUDEP may have similar mechanisms to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), say James Tao and study co-authors, from The University of […]
Computer Model Creates Dragnet for Epilepsy Genes, Filters Genese for “Switch” An international team of scientists together with the University of Bonn Hospital have taken a new path in the research into causes of epilepsy: The researchers determined the networks of the active genes and — like a dragnet — looked for the “main perpetrators” […]
Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) ‘improves the safety and tolerability of VNS making it more accessible and facilitating further investigations across a wide range of uses when compared with surgically implanted VNS’ according to a review in the European Journal of Neurology. The review then went on to look at the efficacy of both surgically implanted […]
PRESS RELEASE: LSU Health New Orleans research finds novel compound switches off epilepsy development LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER New Orleans, LA – Researchers at the LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence have found that a novel compound they discovered helps curtail the onset and progression of temporal lobe epilepsy. The finding, […]
Among the problems people with Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) struggle with are difficulties with social behavior and communication. That can translate to an inability to make friends, engage in routine conversations, or pick up on the social cues that are second nature to most people. Similarly, in a mouse model of ASD, the animals, like […]
