People with diabetes can wear a device that measures blood glucose and delivers just the amount of insulin needed to return the glucose level to within bounds. Currently, people with epilepsy do not have access to an equivalent wearable device that measures a systemic indicator of an impending seizure and delivers a rapidly acting medication or other intervention (e.g., an electrical stimulus) to terminate or prevent a seizure.
The aim of the study was to examine whether epilepsy is an obstacle to desired friendship.
Improving the Lives of People with Epilepsy, sets out the actions required to deliver an integrated approach to epilepsy care and treatment, which better meets the multifaceted needs of people with epilepsy.
A study published this month in Science Advances by a team of researchers at Macquarie University’s Dementia Research Centre showed their treatment could prevent seizures in mice by clearing build ups of a protein in the brain.
Impact of the flu and COVID-19 on seizures, new hope for a temporal lobe epilepsy treatment, and more in this Epilepsy Research News.
Thus, this study demonstrated that analyzing sleep characteristics and their approach may be relevant in clinical practice, given the close relationship between sleep and seizure control in this epilepsy syndrome.
This study in healthy volunteers demonstrated that food significantly decreases and delays the absorption of diazepam dosed via nasal spray. Patients using diazepam nasal spray after eating may obtain diazepam concentrations that are below those needed for seizure control.
To explore the localization value of drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) aura for preoperative evaluation, based on stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG), and its prognostic value on the surgical outcome.
Dive into our upcoming webinar, the latest grantees, and more in this Update.
