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, […]
August 07, 2023 | Childhood Epilepsy, Depression, Epilepsy, Epilepsy in children, Epilepsy in seniors, Epilepsy in women, Epilepsy Syndromes, Family and Friends, Human Interest Epilepsy, Memory, Mental Health, Neurology, 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 […]
August 03, 2023 | Epilepsy, Epilepsy Syndromes, Human Interest Epilepsy, PNES, Research, Seizures
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 […]
August 02, 2023 | Childhood Epilepsy, EEG, Epilepsy, Epilepsy in children, Epilepsy in seniors, Epilepsy in women, Epilepsy Syndromes, Human Interest Epilepsy, Medicine, Neurology, Prevention, Stress and Epilepsy
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 […]
July 19, 2023 | Epilepsy, Epilepsy Syndromes, Research, Technology
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 […]
July 13, 2023 | Driving & Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Epilepsy in seniors, Epilepsy in women, Epilepsy Syndromes, Family and Friends, First Aid for Seizures, Human Interest Epilepsy, Memory, Neurology, News, Seizure Detection, Seizure dogs, Seizure Types, Seizures, Stress and Epilepsy, Women and Epilepsy
The researchers hope to see the treatment reach clinical settings to benefit children affected by Dravet syndrome Researchers at Tel Aviv University, among other institutions, have developed an innovative gene therapy that may help children suffering from Dravet syndrome (DS), a severe developmental epilepsy caused by a random mutation in the SCN1A gene during […]
July 09, 2023 | Epilepsy Syndromes, Research, Technology
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