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What Is Hyperosmia?
Hyperosmia is a disorder that manifests as a hypersensitive sense of smell. It is caused when people have more significant problems with withstanding odor. Hyperosmia is a disorder that manifests as a hypersensitive sense of smell. It happens when people have more...
Abdominal Epilepsy, a Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain: The Need to Investigate Thoroughly as Opposed to Making Rapid Attributions of Psychogenic Causality
Abdominal pain is a nonspecific symptom which can be caused by myriad pathologies, resulting in frequent misdiagnosis. 1 Some pathological conditions can cause paroxysmal gastrointestinal symptoms, such as porphyria, cyclical vomiting,...
The Word That Bothers Me as a Person With Epilepsy
Epileptic. When I hear this word, right away, I feel judged. I feel stigmatized. I feel different. The first time someone called me an epileptic, he and I were parting ways after spending the afternoon together. I had recently revealed to him that I have epilepsy and...
The identity issue
The Generation Next staff comprises diverse high school students, all with different life experiences. Here, they explore the meaning of identity. A couple of them discuss how they’ve embraced the fusion of American culture and that of their immigrant families; one...
MagNI: A magnet-controlled bioelectronic implant to relieve pain
It can be wirelessly charged and programmed with magnetic fields. Recently, Rice scientists have made a breakthrough, i.e., a neural implant that can be both programmed and charged remotely with a magnetic field. Dubbed as MagNI, the integrated microsystem may make...
New UMN-developed epilepsy rescue treatment receives FDA approval
The medication, which is in the form of a nasal spray, is able to be administered outside of medical settings. A new epilepsy 'rescue' medication developed by University of Minnesota researchers will make receiving treatment more accessible for patients who suffer...
UZ Leuven uses new technique to combat epilepsy
A team at the Leuven university hospital has carried out a new minimally invasive brain operation to treat a young woman with epilepsy. The team under Professor Tom Theys used a laser in tandem with an MRI scanner to help locate exactly the tissue to be removed from...
Sorting CDB Truth From Hype
Separating fact from fiction It seems as though someone’s peddling CBD on every street corner these days. You can buy CBD lotion that promises to reduce inflammation, book a CBD pedicure or massage that will supposedly enable you to achieve new levels of deep...
Examining the Economic Impact and Implications of Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a complex disease that comprises a spectrum of brain disorders that can cause seizures.1 It is the fourth most common neurological disorder after Alzheimer disease, migraine, and stroke, affecting 3.4 million individuals in the United States, with...
Fresh Approach to Epilepsy Treatment Rekindles Zest for Life
PHOTO: Janice Breien was anxious to find a better way to manage the seizures that regularly disrupted her daily life. Enter her Mayo care team — ready to listen and provide solutions. Now, with her seizures under control, Janice has a renewed sense of optimism. "I...
Saint Valentine is recognised in the Christian world as the patron saint of epilepsy. But who was he and why did he become particularly linked to epilepsy?
Epilepsy has a much longer history than Christianity. It has been recognised for at least 4,000 years and it was invariably connected to the gods in the ancient cultures that pre-dated Christianity. The ancient Egyptians, the Hindus in ancient India and the Aztecs and...
Developing seizures after stroke may increase risk of death, disability
Seizures may be linked to a higher risk of death or disability in adults who have had a severe ischemic stroke, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2020—Feb. 19-21 in Los Angeles, a...
Aquestive Therapeutics Announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration Filing Acceptance of New Drug Application (NDA) for Libervant™ (diazepam) Buccal Film
WARREN, N.J., Feb. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. (AQST), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing differentiated products that address patients’ unmet needs and solve therapeutic problems, announced today...
Graphene-based implant could lead to new epilepsy treatment
A newly developed graphene-based implant can record electrical activity in the brain at extremely low frequencies and over large areas, unlocking the wealth of information found below 0.1 Hz and the potential for new epilepsy treatment This technology was developed...
Researchers provide new insights into the pathogenesis of epilepsy
The laboratories of Drs. Peyman Golshani at the University of California in Los Angeles, Tristan Shuman at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and Panayiota Poirazi at the Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology (IMBB) at the Foundation for Research and...
Good Seizure Control Means Total Seizure Control
SUDEP prevention is one more reason zero should always be the goal The best defense against sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) — or, more precisely, sudden, unexpected, nontraumatic, nondrowning death in a patient with epilepsy — is good seizure control....
Non-invasive electrostimulation (VNS) of the vagus nerve improves memory
Researchers at UPF are testing a new non-invasive method of stimulating the vagus nerve in mice that improves their memory. They have shown for the first time that electrostimulation in the ear of intellectual disability rodent models leads to a cognitive improvement....
Smartphone videos help diagnose epileptic seizures
Smartphone videos taken by witnesses could help physicians diagnose epileptic seizures, according to a study published in JAMA Neurology. “The findings from our study demonstrate ability of patient-generated smartphone videos to predict an inpatient...
Study Raises Questions About Prescribing Levetiracetam First
Levetiracetam (Keppra) is favored by clinicians over sodium channel blockers as the first prescribed treatment for their patients, but it is also more frequently discontinued due to mood-altering adverse events, researchers reported here at the annual meeting of the...
Clear Evidence: What You Eat Affects Your Mental Health
Research explains the connection between diet, mood, and cognition. If there’s one concept health researchers have come to agree on it’s this: What you eat matters. Although they don’t always agree on what constitutes a healthy diet, medical experts have long...
