Method could hold the key to better treatment of epilepsy and schizophrenia Researchers are exploring new ways to ‘listen’ to and record electrical signals emitted from brain cells Findings could…
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…Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology, University of Exeter Medical School Day 2 – Saturday 10th December 2022 Epilepsy & EEG – Fahmida Chowdhury Consultant Neurologist/ Neurophysiologist at the National…
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…Dr Mark Manford, who gave a talk on epilepsy (and associated TBI), with the thought provoking statistic that 20% of patients at tertiary clinics with the diagnosis of “uncontrollable epilepsy”…
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…diseases.13 Additionally, intoxication and epilepsy are known to sometimes trigger these symptoms.5 A rare phenomenon known as palinacousis has also been documented.6 It involves an auditory illusion of persistence of…
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…of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease. Professor Ingmar Blümcke described how the survey of over 5,000 surgical epilepsy specimens collected at the European Epilepsy Brain Bank has enabled correlation between histopathology, preoperative imaging…
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…selected physical comorbidities of dementia, covering the period 1990-2011 and retrieving over 2500 references. The authors summarise their findings in chapters devoted to falls, delirium, epilepsy, weight loss and nutritional…
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…mental health problems. Eslicarbazepine use in epilepsy was reported extensively. We feel that a therapeutic trial of eslicarbazepine is justified when either carbamazepine or oxcarbazepine have to be discontinued because…
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…treatments in a rat model of focal neocortical epilepsy [27]. Pharmacogenetics is a particularly appealing approach as, apart from the initial stereotactic surgery, it would be less invasive than chronic…
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…urinary urge incontinence has been most commonly described.2,6,18,21,23 Faecal incontinence and constipation may also be a problem in patients with long disease duration.18 Co-existent epilepsy has been described in a…
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