ROCHESTER, Minnesota — Using deep brain stimulation techniques, neuroscientists at Mayo Clinic are looking for early signals in the brain to help stop seizures. In their biomarker discovery initiative ...
Study finds early surgery can cure epilepsy in children. March 12, 2013— -- Tom Parrent was home alone with his son 3-year-old Sam -- better known as "Spike" -- when after lunch the boy told his ...
Scientists are testing a strikingly simple idea for calming some of the brain’s most stubborn seizures: remove the aging cells that seem to be fanning the flames. Instead of cutting out large pieces ...
A common parasitic infection, neurocysticercosis, is increasingly causing seizures in children, often mistaken for other ...
Miles Lewis had his first seizure at 4 years old. He was diagnosed with epilepsy after those seizures kept happening He was put on medication, but eventually a team of doctors at Johns Hopkins All ...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A preclinical study by biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has shown why some people with multiple sclerosis, or MS, also suffer from seizures — a ...
Jennifer Alvis was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was four years old. Now 40 years old and seizure-free, Alvis jokes that it took 36 years for technology to catch up so she could receive the care ...
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have created a method that makes it possible to transform the brain's support cells ...
The brain is especially vulnerable to heat because it cannot cool itself, making high temperatures risky for people with neurological conditions like epilepsy. The global climate crisis is making ...
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Barney Hewitt ruptured a lung and broke both of his shoulders during the life-changing seizure Brain Tumour Research Barney Hewitt suffered a “violent seizure” on his 25th birthday, during which he ...
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