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American Family Physician
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Seizure Disorders in the Elderly Seizure disorders become increasingly common after the age of 60 years and can have a significant impact on functional status. The goal of antiepileptic drug therapy is to control seizures but preserve quality of life.   |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2000
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A Practical Approach to Uncomplicated Seizures in Children Uncomplicated seizures and epilepsy are common in infants and children. Not all uncomplicated childhood seizures require neuroimaging or treatment... |
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September 1, 2007
Mary Unruh Fagley |
Taking Charge of Seizure Activity Learn what happens during a seizure when the brain's electric signals go awry and how you can help someone plagued by the disturbing effects. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2001
Selim R. Benbadis |
Advances in the Treatment of Epilepsy Significant advances have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy over the past decade... |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2006
James S. Millar |
Evaluation and Treatment of the Child with Febrile Seizure Up to 5% of children in North America and western Europe experience at least one episode of febrile seizure before six years of age. Most of these seizures are self-limited and patients do not require treatment. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2001 |
What Should I Know About Seizures and Epilepsy? What is a seizure, and what is epilepsy?... What causes epilepsy?... Who gets epilepsy?... Are all seizures the same?... How does the doctor find out I have epilepsy?... |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2000
Timothy F. Jones |
Mass Psychogenic Illness: Role of the Individual Physician Mass psychogenic illness is characterized by symptoms, occurring among a group of persons with shared beliefs regarding those symptoms, that suggest organic illness but have no identifiable environmental cause and little clinical or laboratory evidence of disease... |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2003
Sirven & Waterhouse |
Management of Status Epilepticus Physicians should rely on a standardized protocol for management of status epilepticus to improve care for this neurologic emergency. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2006 |
Febrile Seizures: What You Should Know A patient guide: What are febrile seizures?... Who gets febrile seizures and why?... How can my doctor tell if my child has had a febrile seizure?... What can I expect?... etc. |
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New Drugs 2010, PART 1 In this article, you'll learn about 16 new drugs. |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2002
Martha J. Morrell |
Epilepsy in Women Epilepsy in women raises special reproductive and general health concerns. Seizure frequency and severity may change at puberty, over the menstrual cycle, with pregnancy, and at menopause. |
Reactive Reports
July 2004
David Bradley |
Breaking the Cycle of Epilepsy in Women Researchers have made an important discovery about a form of epilepsy that affects women most severely during menstruation. The findings could lead to a new treatment based on manipulating levels of the hormone progesterone. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2011
Frank Vinluan |
GSK Epilepsy Drug Approved by FDA GlaxoSmithKline and drug partner Valeant Pharmaceuticals have received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval on a new epilepsy drug, but it must be classified as a controlled substance. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2013
Ben Comer |
Top Medical Innovations for 2014 At the conclusion of the Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovations Summit each year, 10 innovative technologies are unveiled before the audience, and designated as new and revolutionary tools for the treatment of disease and disability. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
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A New Approach to Predicting Epileptic Seizures Torrents of data produced by implanted microelectrodes could finally yield a prediction system |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2000 |
What Is Mass Psychogenic Illness? Sometimes people in a group start to think they might have been exposed to something dangerous, like a germ or a toxin (poison). They might get signs of sickness like headache, dizziness, faintness, weakness or a choking feeling... |
