According to the United Nations, up to 1 billion people, or nearly one in six of the world’s population, have some kind of neurological disorder. In a recent study, scientists from MIT and Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) found a new way to use light to target and change the […]
The Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy here on Thursday said that after four years of work, it has developed and implemented a new computational tools which can accurately identify the epileptic focus. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders affecting about six million people in the country but in 70 per cent of […]
An estimated 65 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and one in 26 Americans will develop epilepsy in their lifetime. Most of these people are able to control their seizures with medications, but approximately 30% to 40% have what’s called drug-resistant or medically refractory epilepsy, in which they don’t respond to standard anti-seizure medications. As a […]
A new study published on the American Academy of Neurology online issue suggests a relationship between Covid-19 infection and developing epilepsy or seizures. The study, supported by the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, took into consideration two groups, each of 152,754 patients: the first group included people who’d had Covid-19 within the past six […]
Seizures tend to get progressively worse over time in people with epilepsy, and a new study in mice suggests why that might be the case. Seizures appear to prompt the brains of mice to produce more myelin, the insulating layer around nerve cells, researchers from Stanford University found. This essentially rewires the brain, creating a vicious cycle in which more seizures cause more […]
A large Danish study supports a robust and long-term bidirectional relationship between epilepsy and depression, with implications for diagnosis and patient care. The findings “strongly support previous observations of a bidirectional association between these two brain disorders,” Eva Bølling-Ladegaard, MD, PhD student, Department of Clinical Medicine (Neurology), Aarhus University, Denmark, told Medscape Medical News. “We add to the existing […]
