the time to formulate or to answer all the questions that arise. A sympathetic physician and, in a comprehensive epilepsy program, associated health care providers will make time available to discuss questions and problems that arise after the dust has settled and an overall management plan can ...
2) To formulate a rational management plan for these patients, it is crucial to understand the long-term clinical courses and patterns of responses to AEDs. In an initial study,3 we followed up 470 patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy treated in the Epilepsy Unit at the Western Infirmary in...
A plan for the diagnostic evaluation of patients with epilepsy is presented. The therapeutic options for seizure treatment are reviewed including the withdrawal of anticonvulsants. Patients who should probably not be treated with anticonvulsants are identified. Psychological and life-style issues in the...
Dietary nutrition plays a very important role in maintaining overall healthy well-being of an individual. As epilepsy is one of the most common neurological illnesses in the world, a dietary guidance would provide individuals with epilepsy an idea on which foods to avoid and prevent worsening of ...
The current management app functions as an intelligent, epilepsy-specific, medical record which produces a summary with a management plan sent to an experienced neurologist. For untreated patients, it suggests a management plan when an experienced doctor is not available. Our results showed that the...
There is also a need for medical professionals working in such settings to receive training on issues involved in assessment, diagnosis and management and a need for research into the efficacy of such training with regard to the impact on ameliorating symptoms of depression and anxiety and ...
Due to its complex and multifaceted nature, developing effective treatments for epilepsy is still a major challenge. To deal with this complexity we introduce the concept of degeneracy to the field of epilepsy research: the ability of disparate elements
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