Posts Tagged ‘seizures’

Gene to blame for infant epilepsy

U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — Scientists have identified the genetic cause of a rare seizure disorder that affects infants. Continue…

Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:46 - 0 Comments

Health & Medicine - Jan 9, 2012 11:24 - 3 Comments

How-to guide for risky HIV/epilepsy drugs

MICHIGAN STATE (US) — New guidelines will help doctors avoid fatal interactions among HIV/AIDS and epilepsy drugs, and prevent anti-HIV drugs from losing effectiveness. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Mar 7, 2011 14:16 - 2 Comments

Molecule shields brain from seizure

BROWN (US) — The presence of a molecule in the brain following an epileptic seizure appears to exist solely to protect the brain from further seizures down the road. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jun 9, 2010 14:26 - 0 Comments

Seizure drug may reverse genetic liver disease

U. PITTSBURGH (US)—The most common genetic cause for which children undergo liver transplantation might be reversed or prevented with a medication that has long been used to treat seizures, a new study finds. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Dec 28, 2009 16:35 - 0 Comments

Mature brain recycles embryonic circuit maker

JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—Neuroscientists have discovered that an older mammal’s brain shrewdly revisits and reuses molecular cues from prenatal development to control the complex design of its circuits. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jul 8, 2009 13:25 - 0 Comments

After injury, brain may be its own worst enemy

“The thought is that maybe there is a window of opportunity where we could go in after an injury and administer one of these immune response inhibitors and stop a process that we think is going to lead to epilepsy,” says Daniel Barth, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.