New genetic clues uncovered in epilepsy drug resistance
Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, finds a new global ...
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New video-based method enhances detection of infantile spasms syndrome
Shenyang Institute of Computing Technology, CAS and Chinese PLA General Hospital Joint Team conduct series of investigations on Infantile Spasms ...
Raman spectroscopy enhances surgical precision for pediatric epilepsy treatment
More than 50 million people worldwide live with epilepsy, with approximately half of them being children. For about one-third of ...
Gene therapy breakthrough offers hope for severe Dravet syndrome cases
Researchers successfully use an adeno-associated viral vector to restore brain function in a mouse model of SCN1B-linked DEE52, reducing seizures ...
Pulses of light show promise in controlling seizures
In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz and ...
New prediction model helps identify epilepsy risk after stroke
Researchers from 15 countries, led by Amsterdam UMC, have developed a way to predict which patients are at risk of ...
He fell ill on a cruise. Before he boarded the rescue boat, they handed him the bill.
Vincent Wasney and his fiancée, Sarah Eberlein, had never visited the ocean. They'd never even been on a plane. But ...
Is posttraumatic epilepsy associated with long-term dementia risk?
Long-term dementia risk is associated with both head injury and epilepsy. However, research has thus far documented the links between ...
Functional, nonepileptic seizures linked to higher death rate than expected
The death rate for patients with functional, nonepileptic seizures is higher than expected, with a rate comparable to epilepsy and ...
Can ketogenic diet offer an effective alternative to antiseizure medication in infants with drug-resistant epilepsy?
In a recent study published in The Lancet Neurology, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of ketogenic diets compared to anti-seizure medications ...