Adults who have long-standing epilepsy often have many social difficulties to contend with regardless of whether their childhood seizures have remitted or not, according to a 30-year longitudinal study. The outcomes of adults who had three different types of childhood epilepsies were "amazingly similar," with high rates of social and... read more →
Jul
22
Jul
22
Researchers have dramatically reduced the occurrence of seizures in a small group of children with epilepsy, using an existing cancer drug they think might be able to treat up to 1.5 million people with intractable forms of the disease. In a new study, Texas Children’s Hospital neurologists found that children... read more →
Jul
22
Competitive $1.7 million grant from National Institutes of Health to UC Riverside will support investigation of hyperexcitability in the brain. Ten percent of Americans experience a seizure in their lifetime, with three million diagnosed with epilepsy, a chronic neurological disorder. Anticonvulsant medications can mitigate the hyperactivity of neurons that leads to... read more →
Jul
21
The mother of a profoundly disabled woman has taken her out of a council-run respite care centre because she came home with a big bruise on her arm. Annette Boozier’s daughter Lesley Thompson came home from the Napier Service care unit, in Rochester, crying and complaining about her bruise. Lesley,... read more →
Jul
18
A girl with a rare genetic condition has finally spoken her first words thanks to a diet that involves eating four tubs of cream cheese a week. Three-year-old Fields Taylor from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, suffers from a disorder called Glut1 Deficiency Syndrome, which affects her ability to speak. But... read more →
Jul
18
Children whose mothers take anti-epilepsy drugs during pregnancy face an increased risk of developing autism, a new study has warned. Researchers found that by the age of three years old, children whose mothers had taken drugs to control their epileptic seizures were four times more likely to show traits associated... read more →
Jul
18
Nancy Floris, a nurse from Amesbury, Mass., has learned when something scary is about to happen with her standard poodle, Spencer. "He is like in a trance almost,” she said about the distant stare Spencer makes before a seizure that causes him to vomit, clench his jaw, fall over and... read more →
Jul
18
Scientists at Bonn University Hospital and at the Max Planck Institute for neurological research in Cologne have developed a method with which the chances of success of a surgical procedure for temporal lobe epilepsy can be accurately predicted. The rate of accurate predictions is more than 90%. The results are... read more →
Jul
17
A mother-of-two who was scared of heights for years has overcome her fear by taking part in a skydive to help raise money for a Woodford Green hospice, which helps her care for her disabled son. Maxine Davies, 28, decided to raise money for Haven House, in High Road, to... read more →
Jul
17
The brother of a 28-year-old man who died after collapsing in the street is to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity. Richard Lord, 33, wants to raise £5,500 for Epilepsy Action after his younger brother Andrew, who had heart problems and suffered epilepsy, died in January last year.... read more →