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Epilepsy in sentence

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And these are some of the cells that might be overactive in disorders such as epilepsy.
Consider, for example, a condition like epilepsy, where the brain is overactive.
But the implications of being able to control seizures or epilepsy with light instead of drugs and being able to target those specifically is a first step.
So epilepsy patients sometimes need the electrical activity in their brain monitoring.
In addition to sensory deprivation, recreational and therapeutic drugs, conditions like epilepsy and narcolepsy, and psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, are a few of the many known causes of hallucinations, and we’re still finding new ones.
In particular, there's a medication, valproic acid, which mothers with epilepsy sometimes take, we know can increase that risk of autism.
But an amazing opportunity came about very recently when a couple of colleagues of mine tested this man who has epilepsy and who is shown here in his hospital bed where he's just had electrodes placed on the surface of his brain to identify the source of his seizures.
For example, he discouraged giving the diagnosis to children who had seizures but now we know that epilepsy is very common in autism.
I was born with epilepsy and an intellectual disability.
Maybe we could try to pinpoint the exact changes in the brain that result in diseases, diseases like Alzheimer's and epilepsy and Parkinson's, for which there are few treatments, much less cures, and for which, very often, we don't know the cause or the origins and what's really causing them to occur.
What if we could actually look into cells in the brain and figure out, wow, here are the 17 molecules that have altered in this brain tissue that has been undergoing epilepsy or changing in Parkinson's disease or otherwise being altered?
We can maybe aim energy at different parts of the brain in order to help people with Parkinson's or epilepsy or other conditions that affect over a billion people around the world.
Many had undiagnosed conditions like multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, brain tumors.
Patients with epilepsy could be forcibly institutionalized until the EEG was able to measure abnormal electrical activity in the brain.
Seizures are the trademark characteristic for most types of epilepsy, and every first-ever seizure needs to be assessed by a doctor to determine if one has epilepsy or if it's a symptom of something else.
In my case, it was confirmed that I had epilepsy.
Or maybe it was because of the things I had heard about epilepsy and about people living with epilepsy: that they would never live on their own; that they would never travel on their own or even get work; that they were outcasts, with a spirit in them that they needed to be delivered from.
And before long, I began to be seen and heard by people who had epilepsy and their families, and even those who did not have the diagnosis.
Every year, a population as big as 80 percent of Nairobi gets diagnosed with epilepsy across the globe.
Henry died of SUDEP, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
SUDEP is when an otherwise healthy person with epilepsy dies and they can't attribute it to anything they can find in an autopsy.
Two-thirds of people who have epilepsy get it under control with their medications.
Now, at the time, I didn't know anything about epilepsy, and did a bunch of research, realized that another student's dad is chief of neurosurgery at Children's Hospital Boston, screwed up my courage and called Dr. Joe Madsen.
So we had started with work on stress, which had enabled us to build lots of sensors that were gathering high quality enough data that we could leave the lab and start to get this in the wild; accidentally found a whopper of a response with the seizure, neurological activation that can cause a much bigger response than traditional stressors; lots of partnership with hospitals and an epilepsy monitoring unit, especially Children's Hospital Boston and the Brigham; and machine learning and AI on top of this to take and collect lots more data in service of trying to understand these events and if we could prevent SUDEP.
And the reason I bring up this uncomfortable question is because one in 26 of you will have epilepsy at some point, and from what I've been learning, people with epilepsy often don't tell their friends and their neighbors that they have it.
If you have epilepsy, there is an instance of billions of brain cells, or at least millions, discharging in pathological concert.
15th century Europeans believed they had hit upon a miracle cure: a remedy for epilepsy, hemorrhage, bruising, nausea, and virtually any other medical ailment.
Blood, in either liquid or powdered form, was used to treat epilepsy, while human liver, gall stones, oil distilled from human brains, and pulverized hearts were popular medical concoctions.
Form a company to develop a neuro-pacemaker for epilepsy, as well as other diseases of the brain, because all diseases of the brain are a result of some electrical malfunction in it, that causes many, if not all, of brain disorders.
If that's the source of the epilepsy, we can attack that as well.
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