…spoke about a specific form of epilepsy associated with LGI1 antibodies, named faciobrachial dystonic seizures. The clinical description, treatment and outcome of a large cohort was presented. Importantly, we heard…
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…diagnosed with epilepsy1. Buccal midazolam is recommended by NICE2 for the management of prolonged acute convulsive seizures, and is preferred by most patients and carers compared to the administration of…
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…reduced. Early diagnosis improved with more appropriate use of diagnostics. Readmissions of patients managed by the service was reduced, partly through appropriate signposting. (e.g. patients with epilepsy were organised to…
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…saw the amount of migraines experienced over a month reduced by at least half.1 Migraine is more prevalent than diabetes, epilepsy and asthma combined3 and almost 200,000 people across the…
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…antibodies in epilepsy, movement disorders and memory syndromes. They come at a time when psychiatry is increasingly looking towards neuroimmune interaction as a putative disease mechanism in psychotic and other…
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…and epilepsy, and contrasting the reaction of online audiences to videos of either pets (sympathy) or humans (ridicule) having seizures. He highlighted the continuing use in animals of certain anti-epileptic…
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…than 18 years, who have been diagnosed with epilepsy1. Buccal midazolam is recommended by NICE2 for the management of prolonged acute convulsive seizures, and is preferred by most patients and…
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…fields of epilepsy, neurology and rare paediatric conditions that licensed products cannot meet. Headquartered in Weybridge, UK, Veriton Pharma, is a privately owned, speciality pharmaceutical company which also has regional…
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…terminate fatally. It is characterised by the intracellular accumulation of autofluorescent lipopigment storage material with different ultrastructural patterns. He described clinical features including visual impairment resulting in blindness; epilepsy; myoclonic…
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