epilepsy
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Researchers are also investigating whether optogenetics could eventually be used to treat neurological conditions, including Parkinson’s and epilepsy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
The 21-year-old, from Netherlee in East Renfrewshire, has Rett Syndrome, a genetic neurological disorder which leaves her unable to speak or move and comes with a range of health problems including epilepsy.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Ketogenic diets were first developed during the 1920s as a treatment for epilepsy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 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
Ever since then, the dove has been able to give epilepsy to humans.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Electrophysiology insights could guide more sophisticated monitoring of cortical epilepsies and possibly other focal epilepsies as well.
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
But dentate gating seems to break down in temporal-lobe epilepsies affecting the hippocampus, resulting in unrestrained, synchronized firing of granule cells.
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
"Dan was frothing dreadful, and his legs was twitchin' like one in the epilepsies."
From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood
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