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MEMORY: Seven Universities Working to Develop New Technologies

MEMORY: Seven Universities Working to Develop New Technologies

UT Southwestern Medical Center has joined a consortium of seven leading universities to develop new technologies to improve memory in people with traumatic brain injury, mild cognitive impairment, epilepsy, and Alzheimer's disease. Specifically, UT Southwestern is...

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Extreme events in the brain

Extreme events in the brain

How do epileptic seizures develop? A new model from the universities of Bonn and Oldenburg may help to answer this question. Physicists at the Universities of Bonn and Oldenburg have developed a model whose behavior - although based on strict rules - can apparently...

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AES releases new guideline to help physicians treat status epilepticus patients effectively

AES releases new guideline to help physicians treat status epilepticus patients effectively

Status epilepticus - continuous or rapid sequential seizure activity for 30 minutes or more - is a medical emergency with a high mortality rate in both children and adults. Prompt and effective treatment is key; therefore the American Epilepsy Society (AES) has...

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15 things you only know if you have epilepsy

15 things you only know if you have epilepsy

I was diagnosed with epilepsy out of the blue at the age of 21 during my final year at university. It changed my life dramatically over night and seizures continue to interrupt my life regularly. But it hasn’t stopped me from always seeking new challenges including...

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New computational techniques could help researchers pinpoint anatomical source of seizures

New computational techniques could help researchers pinpoint anatomical source of seizures

For the third of all epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication, an alternative is to locate the small cluster of neurons that act as the seed of a seizure's aberrant electrical activity and surgically remove it. Unfortunately, such surgeries often fail to...

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