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Inverness bridge to be lit up purple to raise awareness of epilepsy
Ness Bridge will light up purple to help raise awareness of epilepsy for Purple Day on Sunday. Purple Day was founded in Canada in 2008 by nine-year-old Cassidy Megan and is a great opportunity to get people talking about epilepsy and dispel the myths and stigma...
Global alert for shortage of medicines for mental health, according to the UN
The UN insists in a report published this Thursday on the importance of people suffering from mental health problems having adequate access to psychotropic substances for medical use and warns that 75% of these patients live in countries where their treatment is...
With Neurology-on-Wheels, Doctor Takes Free Epilepsy & Stroke Treatment to Rural Andhra
Dr Bindu Menon’s foundation runs an initiative called Neurology-on-Wheels, offering free healthcare services to remote areas since 2013. She is also noted for her research in the field of epilepsy, strokes, and other neurological diseases. Sometime in early 2008, Dr...
Health Beat: Safe driving for people with epilepsy
There’s a huge sense of freedom when you’re behind the wheel, but it’s also a skill that requires you to avoid distractions. This can prove difficult for people with epilepsy. Medication or deep brain stimulation may control the severity of seizures, but brief periods...
Growing up with Epilepsy: Changing Docs as you go
Almost half a million American kids live with epilepsy and another 10 to 20 million have a chronic illness. As these younger patients grow up, many will need to start treatment with adult specialists, putting them at risk of falling through the cracks. Ivanhoe...
IU opens research institute addressing stigma around mental health
Irsay Institute, funded by gift from Jim Irsay family, will further university’s research and training BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A new research institute at Indiana University, made possible by a $3 million donation from the Jim Irsay family, has formally launched its...
Researchers uncover one way CBD stops seizures
A new US study, published in the journal Neuron, found that CBD affects a particular molecule in the body that’s involved in brain signaling. In November 2018, it became legal to prescribe CBD in the UK. Since then, one CBD medicine – Epidyolex – has been legalized...
The Mozart Effect Myth: Listening to Music Does Not Help Against Epilepsy
Summary: Researchers say there is no reliable scientific evidence to support the claim that listening to Mozart’s Sonata KV448 can provide relief from symptoms of epilepsy as previously claimed. Source: University of Vienna Over the past fifty years, there have been...
Novel deep brain simulation approach for treating drug-refractory epilepsy
Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder characterized by recurrent seizures. About 30 percent of epilepsy patients are known to be drug-refractory, which means they do not respond to drug treatments. Temporal lobectomy of the epileptogenic zone can alleviate or terminate...
Brainerd woman releases memoir to raise epilepsy awareness
Barbara J. Mack, Brainerd, sometimes wonders where life may have taken her if she hadn’t had a car accident as a teen. For most of her life, she and her doctors have wondered which came first, the car accident or the seizure. No one will ever know, despite countless...
New research could greatly improve the quality of life for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from happening, according to new research from UTHealth Houston. The study,...
What You Need to Know About SUDEP
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is when an otherwise healthy person with epilepsy dies without a known cause, such as injury or drowning. Usually, death occurs during or right after a seizure, but it can occur without a seizure. The condition is...
Is Epilepsy Genetic?
About half of the time, the cause of epilepsy is unable to be identified. When a cause can't be found, it is called cryptogenic epilepsy. For the other half of epilepsy cases, the causes may be more easily identifiable, such as head trauma or a known genetic syndrome....
Stanford Research Suggests Motion Sequencing Can Potentially Help Epilepsy
A team of researchers at Stanford has found a new way to potentially help patients with epilepsy. The researchers studied mice with acquired and genetic epilepsies, and they found that machine analysis can work better to identify epileptic vs. non-epileptic mice...
Common epilepsy triggers and How to identify it
Recurrent seizures, which are defined as sudden and brief disruptions of the brain's electrical activity, are a hallmark of epilepsy. Triggers for epilepsy can vary greatly from person to person, but some common triggers include: 1. Sleep deprivation: Everyone needs...
AI outperforms human eye in spotting epileptic behavior in mice
The advent of high-resolution imaging has provided healthcare providers and scientists with a greater understanding of the brain circuit malfunctions seen in epileptics, but less is known about how epilepsy affects behavior. A new study has used state-of-the-art AI on...
MUM’S AGONY Doctors told me my daughter’s condition wouldn’t kill her – she died two years later
WHEN Deborah Leigh's daughter was diagnosed with a rare condition causing seizures, she claims doctors told her it wouldn't prove fatal. Yet, two years later, the devastated mum found her 25-year-old child, Helen, lifeless on the floor of her home. After a desperate...
I Thought My Seizures Were ‘All In My Head’ – But I Wasn’t Making Them Up
In 2019 I began losing control of my body and started having seizures. Initially they were every few months but became increasingly frequent until they were happening four times a day, lasting up to an hour at a time. My right arm developed a permanent tremor and I...
12 Best Foods for a Healthy Brain and Better Memory
These foods will help you maintain a healthy brain and may even prevent conditions like dementia. It's not often that the brain thinks about itself and all that it does to keep us properly functioning. However, the reality is that it takes a lot of energy to think,...
Epilepsy can’t be cured, but you still can enjoy life to the fullest
Epilepsy can impact physical and emotional well-being, but treatments can help. Epilepsy can severely affect your quality of life, and while there is no cure for epilepsy, there are interventions that can prevent symptoms, counteract side effects of medicines and...
