SEA ISLE CITY — One South Jersey teenager is making waves in building a statewide community for epilepsy. Paul’s Purple Warriors and the Epilepsy Services of New Jersey hosted their second annual Seize the Wave seminar Tuesday. The event takes young people with epilepsy into the ocean and teaches them how to surf in a […]
In 2013, Tonya Taylor was suicidal because her epileptic seizures persisted despite taking a long list of medications. Then a fellow patient at a Denver neurologist’s office mentioned something that gave Taylor hope: a CBD oil called Charlotte’s Web. The person told her the oil helped people with uncontrolled epilepsy. However, the doctor would discuss […]
Imogen Clark’s love for swimming was more powerful than the fear of having seizures in the water, propelling her to the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. The Chesterfield-born star had a seizure in the pool aged 13 and was diagnosed with photosensitive epilepsy a year later. Clark’s doctors asked her to halt her swimming ambitions but […]
A team of Florida State University College of Medicine researchers has found a link between a specific protein in the brain and increased vulnerability to neurodegeneration for individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). TLE is the most common form of epilepsy in adults and is often resistant to medication. Professor of Biomedical Sciences Sanjay Kumar, […]
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease affecting the cerebral cortex. It is characterised by the repetition of epileptic seizures over time: a single seizure, e.g. caused by a very high fever, is not sufficient to diagnose the disease The causes that trigger this disease can be traced back to genetic factors and/or are consequences of […]
EPTUNE, N.J. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – One little boy struggled with epilepsy since just after birth – at one point, having up to 50 seizures a day. Pediatric neurosurgeons mapped out a procedure that disrupted the brain signals triggering his seizures. Hydrocephalus is a condition where fluid builds in brain cavities, causing potentially damaging pressure on […]
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