The earpiece signals an app on the patient’s mobile phone that a seizure is likely. A family member or caregiver can also be alerted.
The NightWatch system demonstrated high sensitivity for detecting nocturnal major motor seizures in children in a family home setting and reduced caregiver stress.
Three teams had projects with both a preclinical and a clinical component; these teams focused on: targeting the epileptogenic effects of subarachnoid blood, exploring the neuropathological mechanisms of epileptogenesis, and defining the role of extracellular matrix injury.
The flexible robot is inserted into a patient’s skull and sits between the skull and the surface of the brain.
Those results confirm the thesis how the impact of certain external factors is complex and that the further study is required in that respect.
Pediatric Epilepsy
The latest research on Epilepsy with Eyelid Myoclonia (EEM), worsened perinatal outcomes in women with epilepsy, and more in this issue of Epilepsy Research News.
A network of connections in the brain could be the key to improving frontal lobe epilepsy surgery.
occupational (work-related), chronic exposure to pesticides increases risk factors of epilepsy, a neurological disorder causing unprovoked, reoccurring seizures.
Mental Health Awareness Month, $3.1 million raised for epilepsy research, and more in this CURE Epilepsy Update.
