Patna: International Epilepsy Day, observed on the second Monday of Feb since 2015, aims to educate the public, break the ...

These pictures can show up problems with the structure, or damage, in your brain. If a problem is seen on an MRI that could be linked to your seizures, it can help support a diagnosis of epilepsy. It ...

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is one of the most common epileptogenic lesions associatedwith malformations of cortical development. The findings on magnetic resonance (MR) images areessential for ...

Mean age at seizure onset was 12.4 years (0.4 to 36) and mean seizure duration was 11.6 years (1 to 45). Results: The presurgical detection rate of focal cortical dysplasia with magnetic resonance ...

Seizures can cause falls and injuries like tongue bites or fractures, and they pose a risk of choking due to saliva or food ...

similar techniques have emphasized a network view of seizures. Most recently, several studies using data from electroencephalography, functional MRI and nuclear medicine imaging, have suggested that ...

the most common type of focal epilepsy. Also known as laser interstitial thermal therapy or LITT procedure, thermal ablation is an advanced form of stereotactic radiosurgery that uses magnetic ...

Fact: Seizures are grouped as partial and generalised seizure. Partial seizure may have loss of response or loss of awareness and generalised seizure has tonic-clonic movement of all limbs.

One theory involves the way abnormal brain activity spreads. Seizure activity originates in a core area of abnormal brain tissue, called the seizure focus. Sometimes the abnormality is structural, as ...

Background: Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders. Approximately, one-third of patients with epilepsy have seizures refractory to antiepileptic drugs and further require surgical ...

A laser light goes through the fibre and destroys the area of brain that is causing the seizures. It is carried out in an MRI scanner and the wound left afterwards is small. This means you can often ...

Ictal asystole, bradycardia and AV-conduction block were self-limiting in all but one of the cases and seen during focal dyscognitive seizures ... gender, type of epilepsy, duration of epilepsy, ...