People with epilepsy are at more than double the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than people without epilepsy, but a cause-and-effect relationship has yet to be established, according to a large study by researchers in South Korea. “To the best of our knowledge, there are three case-control studies ……
Seizures. The word conjures images of a contorted, twitching body and total loss of motor control. But that’s just one type, known as tonic-clonic seizures. According to the Mayo Clinic, “A seizure is a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain. It can cause changes in your behavior, movements…
Data from a new U.K. study with the most diverse group of patients ever reported show that Parkinson’s disease symptoms — including tremors, cognitive difficulties, epilepsy, and hearing loss — can emerge up to 10 years before a diagnosis. Moreover, ethnicity or socioeconomic status were not found to be associated with…
Special bioelectronic devices that can be placed inside a person to diagnose, monitor, and treat neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy, may have taken a major step forward with the design of soft and flexible devices that are also biocompatible. Dion Khodagholy, PhD, assistant professor of…
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