It’s not every day you get asked to share your epilepsy story on Morning TV, let alone get to meet one of your musical heroes! For Epilepsy Action media volunteer Murray, it was all in a day’s work when he got the call to feature in a BBC Morning Live film, fronted by Martin Kemp (Spandau […]
Neurosurgeons with the University of Alabama at Birmingham have performed the first radiofrequency ablation for epilepsy in Alabama. Ablation uses heat energy to remove lesions in the brain responsible for epileptic seizures. It is a minimally invasive procedure that provides a treatment option for patients who have drug-resistant epilepsy offered through UAB Medicine. The first procedure was performed […]
Sometimes, even the alteration of a single nucleotide in a gene can cause serious disease. In a young boy with epilepsy, this kind of mutation has not just affected the functioning of the protein in question – it could also curb the functioning of several closely related proteins. This has been shown in a study, […]
Lacosamide monotherapy for the treatment of childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes was well tolerated and resulted in significantly reduced seizures, according to a study published in Brain and Development. “Childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes is an age-limited epilepsy syndrome,” Tohru Okanishi, MD, PhD, associate professor of child neurology at Tottori University in Japan, and colleagues wrote. “Although the use […]
Resective epilepsy surgery was generally associated with good outcomes regarding employment status, seizure reduction, and antiseizure medication reduction. Results from a retrospective study showed that epilepsy surgery has positive impacts on employment status and antiseizure medication (ASM) use; however, errors in executive function tasks and poorer working memory post surgery were associated with worse employment […]
Plastic Bottle Recycling Market Insights 2022 : Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical procedure involving the implantation of a medical device called a neurostimulator (sometimes referred to as a ‘brain pacemaker’), which sends electrical impulses, through implanted electrodes, to specific targets in the brain (brain nuclei) for the treatment of movement and neuropsychiatric disorders. This report studies the Deep Brain Stimulation market status […]
