Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
By Keynote ContributorDr. Orrin DevinskyProfessor of Neurology, Neurosurgery andPsychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine By Orrin Devinsky, MD Today,
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Researchers explore why some MS patients experience seizures
A research team at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine has identified a pathway involving astrocytes, a class
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Cognitive behavioural therapy reduces the impact of dissociative seizures
Scientists have found that adding cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to standardised medical care gives patients with dissociative seizures longer periods
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New therapy stops seizures in mouse model of rare childhood epilepsy
Seizure disorders in babies are frightening and heartbreaking. A new basic science breakthrough offers hope for a potential treatment for
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Neuropeptide reduces epileptic seizures in human brain tissue
One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain
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Cannabis-based medicine may reduce seizures for children with difficult-to-treat epilepsy
Taking a pharmaceutical formulation of cannabidiol, a cannabis-based medicine, cut seizures nearly in half for children with a rare and
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Hope for epileptics as scientists discover device cuts seizures by 93%
Hope for epileptics as scientists discover device implanted in the brain cuts seizures by 93% over three months Unnamed ‘chip’
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