When your child’s daydreams are more than just dreams: Identifying signs of Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE)
Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE) is a neurological condition causing brief, unnoticed seizures often mistaken for daydreaming. Starting around age 4 and peaking at 6-7 years, it is treatable with ...
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Ginger boost effectiveness of epilepsy medicine, reduces complications
In Nigerian traditional medicine, ginger is used to treat colds, pain, arthritis, nausea, and vomiting. Beyond all of these, ginger shows promise in lowering seizure intensity, brain cell death, and ...
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What happens when a rare disease drug seems to work, but the health care system doesn’t?
Cristina Brennan can hear the clock ticking. At the end of the year, her 12-year-old son Tristan will no longer have free ...
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Meditation induces changes in deep brain areas associated with memory and emotional regulation
Researchers using intracranial electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings from deep within the brain found that meditation led to changes in activity in the amygdala and hippocampus, key brain regions ...
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New Tool Estimated to Reduce Epilepsy Misdiagnoses by up to 70%
EpiScalp is a new tool designed to improve the accuracy of EEG recordings and reduce epilepsy misdiagnoses by as much as 70%, ...
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Absence Seizures
The type of medicine that your provider advises will also depend on what other seizure disorder you may have. If you have more than 1 type of seizure disorder, you may need to take several medicines.
Scientists are unraveling the cause behind sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
In the United States, nearly three million adults 18 years and older reported having active epilepsy during 2021 and 2022.