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Could preventing dementia be as simple as following your mom’s advice?
SAN DIEGO – Emerging evidence agrees: Lots of exercise, a good diet, and social interaction are good for both body and mind.
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Employment is associated with high likelihood of declining epilepsy surgery
BALTIMORE – Case-control study probes the association between various demographic, disease-specific, and epilepsy-...
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Pimavanserin reduced dementia-related psychotic symptoms without affecting cognition
SAN DIEGO – The adverse event profile of the second-generation antipsychotic appears more benign than that typically seen with antipsychotics in...
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Cardiac arrhythmia heightens mortality risk during epilepsy hospitalizations
BALTIMORE – A secondary diagnosis of apnea is not independently associated with increased odds of death, however.
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High infantile spasm risk should contraindicate sodium channel blocker antiepileptics
BALTIMORE – Subsequent spasms are seven times more likely.
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Study delineates spectrum of Dravet syndrome phenotypes
BALTIMORE – Presentations often differ subtly from the prototypical phenotype.
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Bariatric surgery tied to fewer cerebrovascular events
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Reduction in convulsive seizure frequency is associated with improved executive function in Dravet syndrome
Baltimore – Prolonged periods of large reductions in convulsive seizure frequency may improve everyday deficits in...
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Moderate coffee intake associated with few seizures in drug-refractory patients with epilepsy
BALTIMORE – The effect of caffeine on seizures may be dose dependent, with moderate doses potentially benefiting patients with epilepsy and high...
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Genetic test stratified AFib patients with low CHA2DS2-VASc scores
A 32-locus genetic test classified AFib patients with low CHA2DS2-VASc scores into high– and low–stroke-risk subgroups.
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Scalp EEG predicts temporal lobe resection success
BALTIMORE – There was one hundred percent failure if seizures spread within 10 seconds.