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Follow Up on Michael Hammer: Three Published Studies Linked to Father’s Search for Cause of Daughter’s EpilepsyMedical Curriculum Technologies Produces New Online Course for Seizures and Epilepsy TreatmentTesting for the SCN1A Gene MutationNPR Features Epilepsy: Keeping Kids Seizure-FreeAAN:  Actor John O’Hurley Hosts New Epilepsy Video2011's Event Photos

Recent study doesn’t change Topamax, ...

Jun18
2013
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Recent study doesn’t change Topamax, Depakote birth defects risks The maker of a topiramate-containing antiepileptic drug co-sponsored a study which showed that its own drug produced less severe side effects than another medication, valproate, in treating juvenile myoclonic epilepsy patients. The bad news in this therapeutic duel is that each drug is linked to an increased risk of birth defects in the babie [...]
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Small Molecule Turns On Ion Channels ...

Jun18
2013
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Small Molecule Turns On Ion Channels And Controls Seizures In Mice Neurochemistry: Compound could help researchers study an important class of potassium channels and develop new epilepsy therapies! The neurological disease epilepsy afflicts about 50 million people worldwide and is difficult to treat. Current treatments leave around 30% of patients with inadequate control of their seizures, according to the [...]
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Behold the sun, the moon and the star...

Jun18
2013
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Behold the sun, the moon and the stars “In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.” — Paracelsus The world stopped 23 years ago: April 19, 1990. Our world. Our bright, curly-haired 3-and-a-half-year-old Elizabeth closed her eyes and slumped. It was like the sound of a silent crash. For us, an eternity passed in the span of 20 minutes. Lit [...]
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Epilepsy Treatment Success is Assessa...

Jun18
2013
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Epilepsy Treatment Success is Assessable in Advance This graphic helps to explain what Micro RNA is and where it is found. Great advances have been made in recent years in epilepsy therapy but only a fraction of people suffering from epilepsy have thus far benefited from them, with a substantial variations in access to newer treatments. That is true for example of epilepsy surgery, where the a [...]
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STUDY: Common drug reduces febrile se...

Jun17
2013
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STUDY: Common drug reduces febrile seizures Nimodipine reduces febrile seizures Fever-induced childhood seizures, known as febrile seizures, can be terrifying for parents to witness. The full-body convulsions, which mostly affect children six months to five years old, can last from mere seconds up to more than 40 minutes. Currently, children are not treated with daily anticonvulsant me [...]
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Follow Up on Michael Hammer: Three Pu...

Jun17
2013
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Follow Up on Michael Hammer: Three Published Studies Linked to Father’s Search for Cause of Daughter’s Epilepsy Three studies associated with Michael Hammer’s investigation into the cause of his daughter’s epilepsy are reported in peer-reviewed journals. • The first sought a genetic cause for Shay Hammer’s epilepsy and involved sequencing of the entire genome of Shay, her parents, Michael and Susanne Hammer, and her brother, Isaa [...]
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Can a common hormone prevent unborn b...

Jun15
2013
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Can a common hormone prevent unborn babies from developing autism? Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), both conditions that are neurodevelopmental in origin, may share some similar molecular vulnerabilities, according to a new rodent study published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. When researchers from Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Ill., exposed [...]
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Study: Epilepsy Patients Use Mind-Con...

Jun14
2013
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Study: Epilepsy Patients Use Mind-Control to Move Computer Cursor Research like this could one day lead to better robotic limbs that are capable of smarter mind-control A new study has mapped the neurological signals throughout the brain while patients complete tasks using only their thoughts, showing promise for mind-controlled robotic limbs. University of Washington researchers, led by Rajesh Rao (a UW pr [...]
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NJ Extends Epilepsy Task Force Bill a...

Jun14
2013
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NJ Extends Epilepsy Task Force Bill and School Nurse Representation TRENTON, NJ – Legislation sponsored by Senator Fred H. Madden (D-Gloucester/Camden) that would extend the work of the New Jersey Epilepsy Task Force for another year and add representation for school nurses was signed into law today. “Patients living with epilepsy and other seizure disorders suffer from psychological and social stigmas that g [...]
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Karen Armstrong On Epilepsy: Author D...

Jun13
2013
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Karen Armstrong On Epilepsy: Author Details The ‘Absolute Terror’ That Led To Diagnosis (VIDEO) When she was a Roman Catholic nun, and for many years after, religious author and scholar Karen Armstrong was plagued by mysterious ailments. Fainting spells, bouts of amnesia and hallucinations were just a few of Armstrong’s symptoms, creating a frightening world that was made even more difficult by the fact that Armstrong couldn’ [...]
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Medical Curriculum Technologies Produ...

Jun13
2013
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Medical Curriculum Technologies Produces New Online Course for Seizures and Epilepsy Treatment Our friends at Medical Curriculum Technologies (MCT), also located right here in Orlando, Florida, have produced some of the most interactive medical staff training courses the world has ever seen. These courses feature highly interactive training with “game-like” tasks, where you have to perform the steps in order to successfull [...]
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New therapy target for kids’ fever-in...

Jun13
2013
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New therapy target for kids’ fever-induced seizures Fever-induced childhood seizures, known as febrile seizures, can be terrifying for parents to witness. The full-body convulsions, which mostly affect children six months to five years old, can last from mere seconds up to more than 40 minutes. Currently, children are not treated with daily anticonvulsant medication to prevent these seizures e [...]
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Confessions of an epileptic shopaholi...

Jun12
2013
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Confessions of an epileptic shopaholic Life with non-convulsive epilepsy can be a challenge. Helen Purves recalls some of the more unusual and even dangerous things she’s done during the lengthy seizures that affect her brain but not her body. “Tramp sit touch hit bite smell.” It’s not your average text message, but many of the people on my contacts list ha [...]
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Link between epilepsy and schizophren...

Jun12
2013
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Link between epilepsy and schizophrenia People who have a history of epilepsy would seem to be at increased risk of developing schizophrenia. The cause of schizophrenia, a psychotic mental illness that leads to much disability, is not well known. But doctors at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, suggest it could be linked to epilepsy. They studied a database of 2.27 million people [...]
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