by Isabel Derera, The Conversation It can start with a vacant stare, what appear to be muscle twitches or a full-blown seizure. But no matter how it begins, any time a child is diagnosed with epilepsy is often a frightening time for families. About 470,000 children are living with epilepsy in the U.S. While there are over a...
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Cannabis dosage studied at USask to reduce seizures in children with severe epilepsy
Posted Today Children with severe epilepsy also experienced improvements in their quality of life after taking low doses of the medicinal cannabis oil, according to research published in Frontiers in Neurology. The study tested the effects of medicinal cannabis oil with 95 per cent CBD, a chemical which does not create a high, and five percent THC,...
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Trigger region found for absence epileptic seizures
by RIKEN Scientists have discovered a neurological origin for absence seizures—a type of seizure characterized by very short periods of lost consciousness in which people appear to stare blankly at nothing. Using a mouse model of childhood epilepsy, a team led by Kazuhiro Yamakawa at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan showed that absenceepilepsy can be...
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Stimulating the epileptic brain breaks up neural networks to prevent seizures
by University of Pittsburgh Responsive neurostimulation (RNS) treats epilepsy by detecting seizures and intervening with a jolt of electric current. Over time, most patients find their seizures become fewer and further between. Now, for the first time, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC have a better understanding of why this happens. As reported today...
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Graphic Design Student Jasmine Banovic’s Daydreaming Turns Out To Be Epileptic Seizures
Daydreaming in class is normal for many students, but when Jasmine Banovic spaces out in class, it’s the sign of a serious health condition. Banovic, now 21, was actually having a type of epileptic seizure that’s known as “absence seizures.” Graphic Designer Hides Seizures Under the Guise of ‘Daydreaming’ For five years, the graphic designer from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire kept her seizures a secret from everyone but her family, best friend, and...
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Prediction method for epileptic seizures developed
Epileptic seizures strike with little warning and nearly one-third of people living with epilepsy are resistant to treatment that controls these attacks. More than 65 million people worldwide are living with epilepsy. Now researchers at the University of Sydney have used advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop a generalized method to predict when seizures will...
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