Mumbai-based neurologists have cautioned against warning signs of epilepsy due to low awareness levels. Epilepsy impacts the brain leading to frequent seizures. It is seen in a large number of people and many cases go unreported. Epilepsy is a brain disease that causes abnormal hyperexcitability of brain cells leading to seizures. It is the need […]
February 23, 2023 | EEG, Epilepsy, Epilepsy Syndromes, Prevention, Seizures, TBI
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the electrical activity in the brain. Recurring seizures and sudden and temporary disruptions of normal brain function characterize it. Seizures can manifest in many ways, ranging from mild symptoms like blank staring and twitching to more severe convulsions that cause a loss of consciousness and physical control.. 2. […]
February 22, 2023 | Epilepsy, Ketogenic Diet, Medicine, Memory, Neurology, News, Prevention, Seizures
Neurofeedback therapy claims that it can help you be more efficient, balanced and happier. Could watching and shaping your own brainwaves do this? Neurofeedback therapy training is like looking in a kind of mental mirror, where the ‘mirror’ is reflecting your brain’s electrical activity. The training, some claim, can make you more centred, efficient, balanced […]
February 16, 2023 | Epilepsy, Human Interest Epilepsy, Neurology, News, Prevention, Research, Seizures, Technology
University of Iowa biologists have definitively linked the brain’s immune system to epilepsy. In a new study, the researchers lay out a chain of events that can cause seizures—the most common manifestation of epilepsy—to worsen. The sequence begins when oxidative stress in the body causes the brain’s immune system to react. That activation by the brain’s resident immune cells […]
February 15, 2023 | Epilepsy, Medicine, Neurology, News, Prevention, Research, Seizure Types, Seizures, Technology
On International Epilepsy Day, this news service outlines the latest efforts in treating epilepsy syndromes. While several therapeutics are available for treating symptoms associated with epilepsy, researchers and patients have strongly called out the need for more holistic treatments that would address the condition as a whole. Although recently approved drugs can treat seizures more […]
February 15, 2023 | Depression, Epilepsy, Medicine, Neurology, Prevention, Research, Seizures, Technology
The curious case of a nine-year-old girl suffering an epileptic attack due to the application of mehendi has made it to the latest edition of Clinical Neurophysiology. The case was reported in Delhi’s Sir Gangaram Hospital. The nine-year-old suffered her first convulsion after applying mehendi to her hands two years back. The convulsion lasted for […]
February 10, 2023 | Childhood Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Epilepsy in children, Human Interest Epilepsy, Neurology, News, Prevention, Seizures
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