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First Epilepsy Clinical Trial Patients Implanted with Dose-delivering Prometra II Device
The first refractory epilepsy patients have been implanted with Prometra II programmable infusion pumps for a clinical trial of the dose-delivery devices, according to the product’s developers, Flowonix Medical and Cerebral Therapeutics. Dan Abrams, Cerebral...
Researchers Working on Non-Invasive Method to Suppress Epileptic Seizures
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new device that detects ongoing epileptic seizures and suppresses them as they start, according to a recent study. This approach may evolve into a non-invasive method to treat epileptic seizures. The study...
Silicon Valley firm’s implant helps stop brain seizures
Imagine a seismograph — the instrument that measures and records earthquakes and volcanic eruptions — for your brain. Except this one has a wireless link to a device implanted in your head that stops epileptic seizures at their source, halting the sudden and violent...
The gene that turns epilepsy treatment deadly
Drug-induced hypersensitivity reactions (DIHRs) are serious and life threatening. A common example is the use of the antiepileptic drug carbamazepine, but the mechanisms that trigger it are unclear. Current scientific consensus holds that people who have a specific...
New Epilepsy Classifications
For the first time in almost three decades, the classification for epileptic seizures has been updated. The new system formally recognizes some seizure types, provides additional information on causes, and replaces obscure or questionable words and terms with more...
Yeast extract may boost brain function
Researchers suggest that Marmite may benefit brain function.Marmite is far from one of the most popular foods in the United States. In fact, many Americans are unlikely to have heard of it. A new study, however, suggests that when it comes to boosting brain function,...
The DEA just gave a big boost to a cannabis-based seizure drug
We are often judged by the company we keep, even unfairly. For decades, that has been the fate of cannabidiol, a chemical compound that has the bad luck to occur naturally in marijuana, the world’s most controversial plant. Because cannabidiol is subject to the same...
Stress may trigger seizure for epilepsy patients
For people suffering with epilepsy, facing stressful events such as the war, trauma or natural disaster, or the death of a loved one, may act as a common trigger for seizures, a study has found. Epilepsy is a disorder in which nerve cell activity in the brain is...
Cannabis Product Reduces Epileptic Seizures in Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, Study Shows
A medical cannabis product called RSHO-X dramatically reduced epileptic seizures in a Mexican study of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a severe form of childhood epilepsy that responds poorly to treatment. The study covered 39 patients who had daily seizures despite being...
Pregnancy weight linked to epilepsy: study
Babies born to severely obese, or grade III obesity, was associated with an 82 per cent increased risk of epilepsy. A study of almost 1.5 million children has found the risk of epilepsy almost doubled among those born to severely obese mothers. Being overweight...
Chinese, US scientists’ research may help cure cancer, epilepsy, aging
When Yuan Yingjin turned 54 on March 10, he had two unusual presents: some yeast chromosomes and acclaim in China's national news. That day, research into assembling four synthetic yeast chromosomes, completed by his Tianjin University research team and scientists at...
Yet another risk of smartphone portraits? Canadian study raises the spectre of ‘selfie-epilepsy’
The teenager languished for three days in a Halifax hospital room, hooked up to an electroencephalogram (EEG) and watched by camera in a routine assessment of the young person’s epilepsy. The results were unremarkable, the EEG readings mostly normal. But then doctors...
Suppressing epileptic seizures via Anderson localization
More than 50 million people of all ages suffer from epilepsy, otherwise known as seizure disorder, the fourth most common neurological disease in the world. Patients diagnosed with epilepsy often experience recurrent seizures triggered by the firing of a large...
Having Depression Increases the Likelihood of Developing Epilepsy
There is a growing interest over the possible relationship between depression and epilepsy. A study recently published showed that there is an increased risk of developing epilepsy among persons diagnosed with depression, and vice versa. Epilepsy is a syndrome...
Electrical brain stimulation found to improve working memory
Scientists may have found a way to improve brain connectivity. The findings may boost short-term working memory, and in the future, they may help to repair brain damage in patients with traumatic brain injury, stroke, or epilepsy. Different brain scans from the study...
Study reveals how genetic defects can lead to childhood epilepsy
New King's College London research reveals how genetic defects can lead to epilepsy in children. In their new study, published in Scientific Reports and funded by Eli Lilly and Co., the researchers set out to understand how genetic defects affect electrical...
Marijuana helps epilepsy patients combat intolerable medication effects Study
A study finds that people with uncontrolled epilepsy ? neurological disorder ? resort to cannabis products when antiepileptic drug side-effects are intolerable. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of...
World’s largest autism genome database shines new light on many ‘autisms’
isThe newest study from the Autism Speaks MSSNG project - the world's largest autism genome sequencing program - identified an additional 18 gene variations that appear to increase the risk of autism. The new report appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience. It...
Cerebrospinal fluid: Potential biomarker for autism found
Research published this week in Biological Psychiatry examines levels of cerebrospinal fluid in children and its potential link to autism. If confirmed by further studies, it would become the first biomarker for the condition. Cerebrospinal fluid may be an early...
Statistics method shows networks differ in epileptic brains
A novel statistical approach to analyzing patients with epilepsy has revealed details about their brains' internal networks. The findings may lead to better understanding and treatment of the disease, according to Rice University researchers. Rice statistician Marina...
