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» Coloured lights could be used to find treatments for brain disorders such as epilepsy, a study has suggested.
Updated: 27-01-2010, 03:21:43
Section: News
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team discovered a way to shut down brain activity using flashes of yellow and blue lasers.They hope to adjust this to switch off neurons that generate an electrical impulse abnormally, causing seizures.This could help experts understand how the brain works and, ultimately, offer treatment targets, Nature reports.The work relies on two genes found in
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» Famous People with Epilepsy
Updated: 19-01-2010, 02:30:13
Section: News
Since epilepsy affects approximately 1% of the world’s population, it is not surprising to learn that several public and historical figures have had seizures. Particularly for those who lived long ago, the historical record can be uncertain, leading to speculation rather than fact. For others, a diagnosis of seizures is more secure. Some of the public figures probably had acute symptomatic seizures...
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  Epilepsy   Epilepsy is the name for a group of disorders of the brain characterized by a tendency to recurrent seizures or convulsions or 'fits'. It is responsible for an enormous amount of suffering, affe...
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  Question: Is epilepsy hereditary?
Answer: The risk of an epileptic person's children also having epilepsy is small. If one of the parents has idiopathic generalised epilepsy, the risk is about 4% in the child...
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  Epilepsy   All teachers need some knowledge of epilepsy since it is a relatively common disorder affecting about five persons in every 1,000 and begin in most cases in childhood or youth. Discrimination can be found most often among those who know little ab...
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