Seizure Syndromes
Seizure Syndromes
An epileptic seizure is caused by excessive and/or hypersynchronous electrical neuronal activity. It can manifest as alteration in mental state, tonic or clonic movements, convulsions and various other psychic symptoms.
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Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new technique known as STATISCOM to identify seizure origins in the brain. The increased accuracy of STATISCOM overnthe SISCOM technique, used previously,...
Ongoing research has elucidated a large variety of genes, proteins and enzyme products that are affected in epilepsy. Despite the pharmacological advances achieved by the development of...
