Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Poorly Controlled
Condition s Partial Epilepsy Seizures Study Status This study is completed. Sponsor s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS Purpose - Excerpt Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation TMS is a non-invasive technique that can be used to stimulate brain activity and gather information about brain function. It is very useful when studying the areas of the brain related to motor activity motor cortex, corticospinal tract, and corpus callosum . Epilepsy is a condition associated with...
Search for Genes Influencing Childhood Absence Epilepsy Study
Condition s Childhood Absence Epilepsy Epilepsy Seizures Study Status This study is currently recruiting patients. Sponsor s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS Purpose - Excerpt The purpose of our study is to identify gene s involved in the cause of childhood absence epilepsy CAE . Contact s Alissa Rottenstein 212-342-0482 New York Columbia University, Division of Statistical Genetics, New York, New York, 10032, United States Recruiting Alissa Rottenstein 212-342-0482...
Invasive EEG in Neocortical Epilepsy Seizure Onset
Source in Neocortical Epilepsies. Williamson, P.D. Siegel, A.M. Roberts, D.W. Thadani, V.M. Gazzaniga, M.S. eds. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, pp. 275-285, September 2000. Contact Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 530 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3621. 215 521-8300. FAX 215 521-8902. Web site www.wwilkins.com home index.html Summary Invasive EEG in Neocortical Epilepsy Seizure Onset, a chapter in Neocortical Epilepsies, describes a study that examined 53 people with...
Project Title RNA BINDING PROTEINS IN EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGIC DISEASE
Principal Investigator amp Institution Toth, Miklos Associate Professor Pharmacology Weill Medical College of Cornell Univ of Cornell University New York, Ny 10021 Timing Fiscal Year 2001 Project Start 3-DEC-1995 Project End 1-MAY-2003 Summary from applicant's abstract This is a competing continuation proposal of a grant funded to study the novel Jerky protein and its role in epilepsy. The mouse line defective in the jerky gene shows epileptic seizures and our work has shown that consistent...
Multiple Subpial Transections in Neocortical Epilepsy Part II
Source in Neocortical Epilepsies. Williamson, P.D. Siegel, A.M. Roberts, D.W. Thadani, V.M. Gazzaniga, M.S. eds. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, pp. 635-642, September 2000. Contact Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 530 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3621. 215 521-8300. FAX 215 521-8902. Web site www.wwilkins.com home index.html Summary Multiple Subpial Transections in Neocortical Epilepsy Part II, a chapter in Neocortical Epilepsies, discusses the rationale and...
Brain Tissue Swelling and Seizure Activity in Inactive Cysticercosis
Condition s Cysticercosis Cysts Seizures Study Status This study is currently recruiting patients. Sponsor s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID Purpose - Excerpt This study will examine what causes seizures in patients with cysticercosis pork tapeworm infection . A better understanding of this could lead to improved methods of controlling or preventing seizures. In humans, the pork tapeworm Taenia solium lives in the small intestine. The parasite's microscopic eggs...
Interplay Between Neocortical and Limbic Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Source in Neocortical Epilepsies. Williamson, P.D. Siegel, A.M. Roberts, D.W. Thadani, V.M. Gazzaniga, M.S. eds. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, pp. 615-619, September 2000. Contact Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 530 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3621. 215 521-8300. FAX 215 521-8902. Web site www.wwilkins.com home index.html Summary Interplay Between Neocortical and Limbic Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, a chapter in Neocortical Epilepsies, is an examination of the relation...
Project Title HIPPOCAMPAL PLASTICITY IN EPILEPSY
Principal Investigator amp Institution Sutula, Thomas P. Neurology University of Wisconsin Madison 750 University Ave Madison, Wi 53706 Timing Fiscal Year 2001 Project Start 1-DEC-1999 Project End 0-NOV-2003 Summary Temporal lobe epilepsy is a common form of epilepsy that frequently becomes resistant to anticonvulsant drugs and is sometimes progressive. The evolving physiological and neuropathological processes that eventually made chronic susceptibility to recurring seizures, development of...
Temperature Response to a HeadNeck Cooling System
Study Status This study is currently recruiting patients. Sponsor s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS Purpose - Excerpt This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a specially designed head-neck cooling system for way lowering the body's central, or core, temperature and cooling the brain. Brain cooling has an effect on stopping seizure discharges in the brain as well as the seizures themselves. If this system works to cool the brain, a similar study may be tried...
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Psychiatric Comorbidity in Epilepsy Basic Mechanisms Diagnosis and Treatment
Source Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 427 p., 1998. Contact American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1400 K Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20005. Summary Psychiatric Comorbidity in Epilepsy Basic Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Treatment describes epilepsy as it is intertwined with advances in both neurology and psychiatry. These advances include increasing knowledge of brain mechanisms, improved and more clearly targeted medical and surgical treatments, and an increased awareness of...