The ketogenic diet, or keto, as it’s called for short, was originally developed to help treat childhood epilepsy. Fast-forward 100 years, and it’s a popular fad diet for weight loss. It’s characterized by its high fat (70 to 80 percent of your daily calories), moderate protein (10...
The ketogenic diet was first coined by Russell Wilder. It was used as a treatment for epilepsy and had its own medical relevance as a dietary choice for pediatric epilepsy. With the advent of antiepileptic medications, the diet lost its significance.(1) Over the years, it has become quite p...
Still other types of genetic diseases include chromosome abnormalities (for example, Turner syndrome, and Klinefelter syndrome), and mitochondrial inheritance (for example, epilepsy and dementia). How Long Does an Allergic Reaction Last? Allergic reactions may last for varying lengths of time. They ...
Sleep-Related Epilepsy Electrical Status Epilepticus of Sleep Sleep-Related Headaches - Sleep-related cluster headaches, chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, and migraines are severe, mainly unilateral headaches that often have their onset during sleep. The patient is either awakened with pain during the night...
Epilepsy, Tonic-ClonicCommunicationSelf ConceptFamilyPsychotherapyCrisis InterventionAdolescentAdultChildA review of theoretical mechanisms underlying paradoxical interventions is undertaken in an effort to classify them into three broad types: redefinition, symptom escalation and crisis induction, and redirection. ...
Epilepsy(seizures) Sleep disorders, including severeinsomniaorsleep apnea Frontotemporal dementia(particularly with new onset of symptoms in the 60s or 70s) Neurosyphilis (a form of the sexually transmitted disease,syphilis, that has spread to the brain because it went untreated too long; this is ...
climatic and geographic influences and lot more things are contributing towards the ‘rise to the peak’ of lifestyle health issues. Among these lifestyle disorders, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) is on the top list among the disorders which are causing morbidity and mortality. ...
Somechronic physical conditions– such as asthma, food allergies, epilepsy, diabetes or heart conditions – may contribute to anxiety symptoms or affect the treatment of anxiety. Having anxiety could also affect treatment for those physical health conditions. ...
Better control ofseizures in childrenwith epilepsy that does not respond to regular drugs; however, the low-carb diet is often poorly tolerated long-term[23,24] Glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome (GLUT1 DS)[30,69] There is INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE about the effectiveness of a low-carb...
A list of members and affiliations appears in theSupplementary Note. Authors and Affiliations Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA Hilary K. Finucane, Verneri Anttila, Kamil Slowikowski, Andrea Byrnes, Caleb Lareau, Noam Shoresh, Giulio Genovese, Jason D. Buenrostro, Bradley ...