epilepsy
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Billy was born with severe life-threatening form of epilepsy that proved extremely difficult to control.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Pregnant women who took an epilepsy drug and say they were not warned of possible birth defects, feel a mix of "guilt" and "anger," one mother has said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Withers, who was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2019 after experiencing symptoms since he was a teenager, said he had also created a "special one" one in tribute to the NHS which had helped him.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Rapamycin reversed abnormal patterns of gene expression involving autism, epilepsy, and ion channel function.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
Ever since then, the dove has been able to give epilepsy to humans.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
In contrast to many of the focal epilepsies, it is the inhibitory response of interneurons that fuels absence seizures.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
Electrophysiology insights could guide more sophisticated monitoring of cortical epilepsies and possibly other focal epilepsies as well.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
The mechanism underlying seizures known as absence epilepsies is rather different.
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
Investigation of the content of the consciousness of the different kinds of epilepsies from this point of view will doubtless bring to light some interesting information.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
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