A group of girls and now one boy in upstate New York suffer from Tourette’s Syndrome like symptoms. Specialists are hypothesizing that this is some form of conversion disorder, or a group-based psychological response, not due to external factors such as a poison. Given the circumstances and symptoms, we find the proposed explanation ha [...]
Mystery illness: More girls develop T...
A group of girls and now one boy in upstate New York suffer from Tourette’s Syndrome like symptoms. Specialists are hypothesizing that this is some form of conversion disorder, or a group-based psychological response, not due to external factors such as a poison. Given the circumstances and symptoms, we find the proposed explanation ha [...]
NEWS RELEASE 4 HOURS AGO – UCB announ...
2012-01-25
UCB announces FDA approval for Keppra® in infants and children from one month of age with partial onset seizures
• FDA expands indication for Keppra® as adjunctive therapy for partial onset seizures to include children from one month of age
• Clinical development program in young children re-enforces UCB’s long-term commitment to i [...]
UCSF- Led study to sequence DNA from ...
To probe the genetic secrets of one of the most common neurological diseases, more than 4,000 people with various forms of epilepsy will have their DNA decoded over the next five years in a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and several collaborating institutions.
“This is the largest, most s [...]
Camp Boggy Creek Now Accepting Applic...
Register now to to attend Camp Boggy Creek in Summer 2012!
Camp Boggy Creek offers an incredible opportunity for children who have to cope with serious illness. It is designed to be a place that they can just be themselves, interact with others without the fear of judgement. The program is free for the children who attend and relies on donati [...]
Neurologically Impaired Children Depe...
Because of care advances, more infants and children with previously lethal health problems are surviving. Many, however, are left with lifelong neurologic impairment. A Children’s Hospital Boston study of more than 25 million pediatric hospitalizations in the U.S. now shows that neurologically impaired children, though still a relativel [...]
New Research Suggests Superior Drug C...
A combination of two common drugs, lamotrigine and valproate, is more effective in treating difficult-to control epilepsy than other anti-epileptic regimens, according to a University of Washington report to be published online this week in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
More than 3 million Americans have epileps [...]
Acupuncture May Have Late Effects in ...
January 13, 2012 — New research has found no significant difference between 3 styles of traditional Chinese acupuncture and sham treatment in the number of days patients had a migraine during the study period, the primary endpoint.
However, significant differences on this measure did become apparent several weeks after the end of treatment. T [...]
New Finding May Help Families Underst...
Benign familial infantile epilepsy (BFIE) has been recognized for some time as infantile seizures, without fever, that run in families but the cause has so far eluded researchers. However clinical researchers at the University of Melbourne and Florey Neurosciences Institute and molecular geneticists at the University of South Australia have d [...]
