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In a paper published in the latest issue of the top journal Science, experts from the Harvard University announce that they were able to normalize functionalities in the brains of mice suffering from a hard-to-treat brain disorder. This was done through the innovative use of neuron transplants. By using this approach... |
29 November 2011
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A group of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Harvard Medical School (HMS) announce the development of a new technology for improving the performance of neural implants used to address a number of neurological disorders.
Some of the conditions in this category include epilepsy a... |
27 October 2011
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Investigators finally discovered the central switch that causes healthy brain cells to be converted into diseases, epileptic ones. The finding could provide a new target for future treatments, that would prevent the development of the disease in the first place. The work, carried out by researchers in the United Stat... |
28 June 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Children who grow up suffering from epilepsy have a higher chance than their peers to experience psychiatric symptoms later on in life. Researchers identified that there is also a difference in the intensity and number of such symptoms between boys and girls with the condition. In other words, it would seem that gend... |
28 March 2011
11:34 GMT |
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A team of experts based at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio announce the discovery of two critically-important signaling molecules, that are capable of communicating across nerve cells in the human brain in order to regulate a host of essential processes.Their interactions allow them to regulate electrical an... |
8 January 2011
04:09 GMT |
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Scientists are drawing attention to the fact that epilepsy, a condition that affects millions, is still not getting the attention it needs for specialists, research groups, universities and authorities. Considering the severity of the situation, this cannot go on, they argue in a new study. Unfortunately, epilepsy is... |
28 December 2010
04:41 GMT |
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A new study carried out by the Emory University School of Medicine concluded that epilepsy drugs may not affect the IQ of babies being breastfed.This is quite reassuring for nursing mothers, who believed that breastfeeding while taking seizure medication could affect the child's IQ later in life.The research inc... |
25 November 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Epileptic women that use multiple antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) to control their seizures during their pregnancy, risk causing poor school performance in their teenagers, according to a large population-based study, carried out by a research team from Karolinska University Hospital and the University of Lund in Sweden.T... |
4 November 2010
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A new research partly funded by the National Institutes of Health shows that it is possible to control images on a computer by the power of your mind.The study basically proved that when the subjects had their brains connected to a computer that displayed two mixed images, they could determine the computer to display... |
28 October 2010
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A team of researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva, Israel, have found a genetic defect which caused progressive mental retardation and epilepsy, starting at infancy.This progressive brain atrophy is caused by the production of the 21st amino acid, calle... |
13 October 2010
04:49 GMT |
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A new study focusing on women in India, suggests that women with epilepsy are twice as likely as others to suffer from infertility.The researchers also discovered that women who were taking several epilepsy drugs, had higher infertility risks than those taking fewer or no drugs at all.Before drawing any conclusions, ... |
12 October 2010
05:34 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the Bernstein Center of the University Freiburg made a big step towards a way of predicting epileptic seizures, according to the latest issue of the journal 'Epilepsia'.Epileptic seizures can be very serious and researchers have been working for a while now on a method to predict t... |
6 October 2010
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Australian researchers carried out a study on identical twins, that proved that a very rare genetic form of epilepsy can be caused by a genetic mutation that happens in the embryo, and it is not necessarily inherited from one of the parents.This is rather an exciting and innovating discovery, that reveals how a mutat... |
30 September 2010
10:39 GMT |
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Scientists at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) made a discovery that could inform future therapies aimed at treating epilepsy. An investigations team determined that the excessive firing of neurons inside the human brain is being controlled by a family of genes that has ancient roots, and which has been... |
2 August 2010
04:25 GMT |
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A recent investigation has revealed that newer versions of epilepsy drugs tend to increase patients' risk of harming themselves, and of committing suicide. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is already requiring drug manufacturers to warn the public if their medication causes elevated risks of suicide, bu... |
27 July 2010
08:45 GMT |
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Electroencephalograms give lots of information, and processing every single one requires a long period of time and many resources. To improve efficiency, scientists have developed an algorithm that highlights the most pertinent features of epileptic signals. This allows them to identify and classify epileptic seizure... |
19 July 2010
10:03 GMT |
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Inside the human brain, nerve cells called neurons stick to each other forming neural pathways, each composed of tens to thousands of these structures. They are bound together through synapses, which mediate the transmission of electrical impulses from one neuron to the next through chemicals called neurotransmitters... |
26 April 2010
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Scientists at the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, announce the development of a new type of in-vitro microfluidic device (a lab-on-a-chip) that could be used to gauge the development of epilepsy in the near future. The work, which was led by expert Kevin Staley and his team, holds great promise for gaining new ... |
3 February 2010
04:12 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that conditions such as epilepsy (a disease of the brain) and heart arrhythmia (irregular beats of the heart) may have a single molecular root problem. Misfiring electrical signals cause both these afflictions, and researchers say that the newly found knowledge may help ... |
19 October 2009
21:01 GMT |
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Although it may sound unbelievable, many scientific achievements take place behind closed doors and beyond the knowledge of the public. Such is the case with the work of University of Reading experts Kevin Warwick and Ben Whalley, from the UK, who are currently conducting experiments on controlling robots with cluste... |
10 September 2009
09:42 GMT |
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A new scientific study conducted on people suffering from epilepsy may have just supplied scientists with the answer to one of the most difficult questions about the human brain, namely where does consciousness come from? Is it based in certain areas of the brain, or is it generated by the organ functioning as a whol... |
17 March 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Researchers in the UK have managed to discover that the condition know as synaesthesia, which makes sufferers experience a cross-over of perceptions in the presence of a single stimulus, is triggered by genetic factors. Furthermore, they have been able to also identify the general portion of DNA that is responsible f... |
6 February 2009
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The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it planned to ask pharmaceutical companies to label epilepsy drugs with a clear warning, following studies that had shown that they increased the risk of patients experiencing suicidal thoughts, after being on the prescriptions for a period of time. A user-fr... |
17 December 2008
02:40 GMT |
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic revealed that children with epilepsy, who suffered from seizures, but are now free of them, due to the influence of drugs, can stop using the drugs altogether. The risk of these children developing intractable epilepsy was found to be minimal, so the find was presented on Sunday at the ... |
8 December 2008
08:32 GMT |
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A new medical breakthrough, made by researchers at the University of Verona, in Italy, revealed the mechanisms that trigger epileptic seizures in mice. Miscoordination between the immune cells and the blood vessels in the brain can lead to the release of compounds that cause the inflammation of the vessels, thus trig... |
25 November 2008
04:25 GMT |
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Hacking attacks usually cause technical damage, meaning that attackers manage to break into the systems and steal or access certain information. Unfortunately, there are cases when such hack attacks prove to be really harming and people suffer because of them. Such an attack occurred at the Easter weekend when hacker... |
8 May 2008
05:30 GMT |
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