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New Potential Target Found For Treating Epilepsy

When an epileptic seizure occurs, a large number of nerve cells in the brain fire excessively and simultaneously. This can lead to uncontrolled shaking of the body and sometimes also involves periods of unconsciousness. One third of the patients do ...

Key Protein Target Discovered In Cancer And Epilepsy

In cancer and developmental brain disorders, certain anchor proteins play an important role in inhibiting a key metabolic driver. This molecular mechanism can open new opportunities for personalized therapies for cancer and neuronal diseases. The ...

'Mozart Effect’ Helpful in Epilepsy

The Mozart Effect, treated with skepticism by many clinicians, is found to have a positive effect on people with epilepsy. A new comprehensive meta-analysis on the effect of Mozart's music has confirmed that listening to his piano music can reduce ...

Magnetic Resonance Elastography can Detect Epilepsy

Magnetic resonance elastography can compare hippocampus stiffness between epileptic patients and healthy individuals. The technique can improve the detection and characterization of the disease. The study 'Hippocampal stiffness in mesial ...

Link Between Seizures During Menstrual Cycle and Drug-resistant Epilepsy

Genetic generalized epilepsy called catamenial epilepsy in women during menstrual cycle has been associated with drug-resistant epilepsy, revealed a Rutgers co-authored study that may help lead to tailored treatments. The study is published in the ...

Vitamin K-based Drug Helps Treat Drug-resistant Epilepsy

New vitamin K-based drug has proved effective in mouse models of medication-resistant seizures, according to the cover article in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry by a team of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina, led by ...

How To Close The Gap In Epilepsy Treatment?

Most interventions to reduce the epilepsy treatment gap include some form of community education or awareness to help people understand that epilepsy is a medical condition. More than 50 million people around the world have epilepsy; about 80% of ...

Maternal Smoking Linked to Childhood Epilepsy

Maternal smoking in pregnancy has been identified as the world’s first environmental risk for developing childhood epilepsy. A new genetic association with the condition has also been identified, opening up potential treatment options for the ...

Mozart Composition may Decrease Seizure Frequency in Epilepsy Patients

Listening to Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448" daily may decrease seizure activity for epilepsy patients. Hence, it could be considered as a supplemental therapeutic option to reduce seizures in people with epilepsy, reports a new ...

Epilepsy Deaths Didn't Reduce Despite Advances In Therapy

Epilepsy-related deaths in young adults aged 16-24 years remain large, according to the new study presented at the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Virtual Congress. The research found that mortality rates for epilepsy-related deaths did not ...

Magnolia Bark Compound may Treat Drug-resistant Epilepsy

Magnolia bark may help treat patients with epilepsy where normal neurological activity becomes interrupted. Now, researchers have identified a potential new treatment for this disorder by turning to traditional Chinese medicine, according to the ...

Early Intervention after Traumatic Brain Injury More Likely to Reduce Epilepsy Risk

Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is one of the common problems that can occur after a traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, early intervention following TBI can prevent or reduce the risk of developing epilepsy, reports a new study. A research ...

Spreading Awareness on Epilepsy At Disneyland

Education on epilepsy could help patients to have better treatment outcomes. Californians Candy and Brad Levy wanted to give back to the community after their daughter Sofie’s successful epilepsy surgery. In the event at Disney land, they ...

New Genetic-based Epilepsy Risk Scores Developed

Genetic-based epilepsy risk scores could lay the foundation for a more individualized method of epilepsy diagnosis and treatment. This test was developed by an international team of researchers led by Cleveland Clinic. Published in the journal ...

When it Comes to Epilepsy Surgery, the Earlier, the Better

People with drug-resistant epilepsy should be referred to epilepsy surgery evaluation as early as possible due to the high chances of becoming seizure-free, according to a new study. The findings of the study are published in the journal Neurology ...

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Seizure-Freedom in 68 Percent Of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Patients: Study

68% of patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) became seizure-free, with nearly 30% no longer needing antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment reveals a 25-year old follow-up study.

Childhood Epilepsy - Classifying the seizure type and epilepsy

Childhood epilepsy is of four types - localization related epilepsy and syndromes, generalized epilepsies and syndromes and Epilepsies and syndromes undetermined whether focal or generalized.