epilepsy
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To investigate what happens inside the unconscious brain, Sheth, who is also a neurosurgeon at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, and his colleagues studied patients undergoing epilepsy surgery while under general anesthesia.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Lacosamide is already used as a treatment for epilepsy, but the researchers found that its effects on cartilage depended heavily on the dose.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
She has never been diagnosed with an underlying seizure disorder, such as epilepsy, and a medical test to provoke a seizure in Linton after the crash came back with no abnormal brain activity, prosecutors said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Oliver, who had a mild learning disability and epilepsy, died in 2016 at Southmead Hospital in Bristol after being given anti-psychotic medication that his family had repeatedly warned he should not receive.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
People wouldn’t use words like epilepsy, mental retardation, or neurosyphilis to describe Elsie’s condition until years later.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Electrophysiology insights could guide more sophisticated monitoring of cortical epilepsies and possibly other focal epilepsies as well.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
Indeed, many epilepsies resemble a perverse imitation of normal activity for a given brain structure — and these lead to some of the distinctions between the pathology and activity associated with different epileptic disorders.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
In contrast to many of the focal epilepsies, it is the inhibitory response of interneurons that fuels absence seizures.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
Still, about 30% of epilepsies do not respond to pharmaceuticals, which prompted the search for alternative treatments.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
The hoof of the Moose-deer was formerly in great repute for curing epilepsies, but has now justly fallen into neglect.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 by Various
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