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Engineering Control Theory Helps Create Dynamic Brain Models
February 19, 2013 — Models of the human brain, patterned on engineering control theory, may some day help researchers control such neurological diseases as epilepsy, Parkinson's and migraines, according to a researcher ... > full story -
Potential Treatment Prevents Damage from Prolonged Seizures
February 11, 2013 — Researchers have found a new anti-inflammatory compound that can reduce mortality when given to mice after drug-induced seizures. Researchers are hopeful the compound could be administered after ... > full story -
Cats and Humans Suffer from Similar Forms of Epilepsy
February 1, 2013 — Epilepsy affects the very core of our being, our brain. Epileptic attacks can lead to seizures throughout the body or in parts of it. Clouding of consciousness or memory lapses are also ... > full story -
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Parasites and Poor Antenatal Care Are Main Causes of Epilepsy in Africa
January 31, 2013 — The largest study of epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa to date reveals that programs to control parasitic diseases and access to better antenatal care could substantially reduce the prevalence of the ... > full story -
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Exposure to Antiepileptic Drug in Womb Linked to Autism Risk
January 31, 2013 — Children whose mothers take the antiepileptic drug sodium valproate while pregnant are at significantly increased risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, suggests a small ... > full story -
Neuroscientists Create Fiber-Optic Method of Arresting Epileptic Seizures
January 24, 2013 — Neuroscientists have developed a way to stop epileptic seizures with fiber-optic light signals, heralding a novel opportunity to treat the most severe manifestations of the brain ... > full story -
Cancer-Causing Virus Found in Brain Shows Potential Connection to Epilepsy
January 24, 2013 — Researchers have evidence linking HPV16, the most common cause of cervical cancer, to a form of epilepsy. They've shown that HPV16 may be present in the human brain, and when they added a viral ... > full story -
Less Tau Reduces Seizures and Sudden Death in Severe Epilepsy
January 22, 2013 — Deleting or reducing expression of a gene that carries the code for tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease, can prevent seizures in a severe type of epilepsy linked to sudden death, said ... > full story -
Social Stigma of Migraine Headaches: Worse Than Epilepsy
January 17, 2013 — A neurologist shows that patients with migraine (a combination of severe headache, nausea, light sensitivity, and other factors) suffer social stigma from their disease similar to the stigma ... > full story -
Promising New Finding for Therapies to Treat Persistent Seizures in Epileptic Patients
January 16, 2013 — In a promising finding for epileptic patients suffering from persistent seizures known as status epilepticus, researchers say that new medication could help halt these devastating ... > full story
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