Category: "Epilepsy Syndromes"

How a Smartphone Can Help You Cope With Epilepsy

How a Smartphone Can Help You Cope With Epilepsy

Epilepsy looks different depending on the person, but here are some strategies for managing symptoms and staying safe. LANDIS WIEDNER JUN 4, 2021 9:00 AM AS VACCINATION RATES rise and municipalities begin to reopen, remembering simple social behaviors—like making small talk with co-workers or hugging a parent hello—is suddenly baffling. For people with chronic illness like me, […]

Seizure Latency May Help Differentiate Epileptic vs Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

Seizure Latency May Help Differentiate Epileptic vs Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

Patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) experienced seizures significantly earlier than patients with epileptic seizures (ES), suggesting that seizure latency may help physicians differentiate between the seizure types. Findings from the retrospective study were published in the journal Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria PNES and ES have similarities that can make it difficult to differentiate between them, and long-term video-electroencephalographic […]

UC San Diego Health among First in Nation to Perform Regenerative Brain Cell Procedure for Epilepsy

UC San Diego Health among First in Nation to Perform Regenerative Brain Cell Procedure for Epilepsy

The new experimental cell therapy is part of a national clinical trial aimed at eliminating seizures “This first-in-human clinical trial represents a paradigm shift in the way we treat this disease process, shifting from procedures that destroy bad tissue to procedures that repair the bad tissue. Our hope is that this procedure has such a […]

Dravet rat model captures seizure disorder’s early features

Dravet rat model captures seizure disorder’s early features

New version may be more suited for long-term research than other models. Researchers have created a new rat model of Dravet syndrome that captures early features of the disease that may make it more suitable for long-term studies than other models. The study, “A novel rat model of Dravet syndrome recapitulates clinical hallmarks,” was published in Neurobiology of […]

Galloway police assumed this woman had taken drugs. Instead, she was having an epileptic seizure.

Galloway police assumed this woman had taken drugs. Instead, she was having an epileptic seizure.

Corynne McKenney-Collier’s lawyer Stanley King filed a tort notice last week of intentions to file a lawsuit alleging “unnecessary and excessive force” by Galloway police.   Shortly after leaving home for work about 7 a.m., Corynne McKenney-Collier’s vehicle swerved on a South Jersey road, striking a tree. After having an epileptic seizure, she has little […]

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