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As Use of Herbal Remedies Soars, Patients Taking These and Cardiovascular Medications May be at Heightened Risk of Dangerous, Potentially Life-Threatening Interactions
"Many people have a false sense of security about these herbal products because they are seen as 'natural,'" said Arshad Jahangir, M.D.,...
Breakthrough Seizures—Approach to Prevention and Diagnosis
What causes breakthrough seizures?There are a number of potential causes of the unexpected occurrence of a breakthrough seizure. One important factor...
Current Developments in Epilepsy Treatment
First Seizure and New Onset EpilepsyWhen a patient has suffered the first epileptic seizure, a decision whether to treat or not is based on the risk...
Deep Brain Stimulation
However, at this time, many questions are still unanswered and many options are still debated. What is the appropriate structure to stimulate or to...
Deep Brain Stimulation and Intractable Epilepsy
For these reasons, and because the development of new AEDs is unlikely to control all of them, new techniques such as deep brain stimulation,...
Depression in Epilepsy Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches
Epilepsy and Depression – A Bi-directional RelationshipAssessing the prevalence of depression from selected clinical samples of patients with...
Developments in Neurostimulation Therapy for Epilepsy
It is estimated that epilepsy affects approximately 50 million people worldwide.1 Although conventional antiepileptic medications as well as newly...
Diagnosing and Treating Epilepsy in the Elderly
It is intuitive to think of epilepsy as a childhood disease. We often think of the incidence of new cases of epilepsy to be highest in childhood, but...
Do New Antiepileptic Drugs with Novel Mechanisms of Action Suggest Reconsideration of Rational Polypharmacy?
Epilepsy is a common, complex, and chronic neurologic disorder affecting an estimated 0.5–1% of the global population or approximately 50 million...
Epilepsy Care - The WHO/ILAE/IBE Global Campaign Against Epilepsy
Since the problem is too complex to be solved by individual organizations, and to bring epilepsy ‘out of the shadows’, a Global Campaign...
Epilepsy Management - Key Issues, Challenges, and Developments
Therapy of epilepsy is based on a correct diagnosis of the epilepsy syndrome, appropriate choice of medication(s), early identification of medically...
Genetic Determinants of Seizures and Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a term used to describe over 40 different human seizure disorders that vary in clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG)...
High-resolution Electroencephalography Provides New Insights into Epilepsy
Advances in medicine are often driven by technological developments. The Eithoven string galvanometer allowed Berger to discover the human EEG....
Initial Therapy for Epilepsy A Focus on Pre-menopausal Women
Women present a special complexity in terms of tolerability because there are several issues to consider and the weighting of these issues may change...
Management of Stroke-related Seizures
Seizures can be classified as those of early and those of late onset in a paradigm comparable to post-traumatic epilepsy, with an arbitrary dividing...
Mayo Clinic Designated Top Epilepsy Treatment Center
Recognizing the breadth of services offered at Mayo Clinic by awarding such a title is one way patients and their medical insurers can gain...
Mayo Clinic Researchers Show Brain Waves Can "Write" on a Computer in Early Tests
Researchers say these findings, presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, represent concrete progress toward a ...
Medication-taking Behavior of Patients with Epilepsy
The concept of compliance is important because negative outcomes such as increased seizure frequency, increased hospital admissions, loss of driving...
Modern Approaches to Epilepsy Management
It has long been recognized that seizures will be or will become refractory to pharmacotherapy in more than 30% of patients, and that localized...
Modern Approaches to Epilepsy Management
His research interests include antiepileptic drug neuropharmacology, the management of epilepsy and factors affecting outcome, which has resulted in...
