Posts Tagged ‘epilepsy’
By Paul Stone On April 28th, 2014
Nearly a fifth of all cases of epilepsy are the result of traumatic brain injuries, but a team of researchers from UC Berkeley, Ben-Gurion University in Israel and Charité-University Medicine in Germany claim a new drug can prevent post-traumatic seizures. It may even be able to prevent further brain damage caused by seizures in those…
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By Paul Stone On March 11th, 2014
The connection between epilepsy and traumatic brain injury has been strongly verified, but researchers have yet to discover what the cause of the link is. It is believed that damage to the brain’s protective covering known as the blood-brain barrier could be play a significant role in triggering epilepsy following a brain injury, but a…
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By Paul Stone On February 24th, 2014
The link between traumatic brain injuries and epilepsy has been well documented, but researchers have only recently found an explanation for why up to 50 percent of people who suffer brain trauma are at risk of developing injury which they hope will lead to the creation of an emergency therapy to lower the risk and…
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By Paul Stone On January 4th, 2013
Seizures following a brain injury is one of the largest concerns in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic brain injury. Now, results from an animal study conducted by the University of Washington, with assistance from the University of Minnesota, and Washington University in St. Louis, has shown that mild cooling of the brain after a…
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