At the end of epilepsy treatment, the patient should continue to take medication for 2-3 years afterwards to be able to treat the disease completely. After this period, the patient no longer needs the medication. However, about 2-3% of patients have relapses. In this case, patients should...
Stroke is one of the commonest causes of seizures and epilepsy, mainly among the elderly and adults. This seminar paper aims to provide an updated overview of post-stroke seizures and post-stroke epilepsy (PSE) and offers clinical guidance to anyone involved in the treatment of patients with ...
Lyrica (pregabalin) is used to treat fibromyalgia, and nerve pain associated with diabetic neuropathy, shingles (postherpetic neuralgia), and spinal cord injuries in adults 18 years and older. It is also approved as an add-on therapy for partial-onset seizures (epilepsy) in patients one month ...
When diagnosing canine epilepsy, the more information you can give to the veterinarian, the better. Every detail is important when it comes to classifying the seizure activity and administering antiepileptic drugs. Diagnosing and Classifying Canine Seizures A veterinarian needs to diagnose and classify t...
An epilepsy diagnosis takes patience. It isn’t something that happens in one office visit. But if you stick with the process, your doctor can figure out if the disease is causing your seizures and treat it. Whether you have epilepsy depends on your symptoms before, during, and after a se...
Why is an epilepsy surgery performed? Long-term control of epileptic seizures is important for a patient’s wellbeing because uncontrolled seizures can be debilitating and increase the risk for: Accidental injuries Cognitive decline Status epilepticus, an emergency condition of continuous seizure that la...
The findings are important because it's the first time the brain immune system–epilepsy link has been experimentally proved. That advance should yield more precise testing and more effective medications to treat the condition. "We have provided genetic proof that both oxidative stress and activation...
aClosed-loop neurostimulation devices that stimulate the brain to treat epileptic seizures have shown great promise in treating more than a third of the 2 million people with epilepsy in the United States alone whose seizures are currently nonresponsive to pharmaceutical treatment. Seizure detection alg...
Oftentimes, dogs are quick studies, eager to learn in exchange for a treat. In fact, Jackson, the Georgia Tech researcher, says, “The fastest that any of our dogs learned to use the [vest’s] sensors was 27 seconds.” The slowest was a pit bull who required nearly half an hour. ...
How long is an hour in dog time? Dogs don’t have a sense of time so precise that they understand a minute, hour, or day. Do dogs have a sense of time when left alone? There's not a lot of research on this, but some initial studies seem to suggest that dogs feel the...