Mud Volleyball Tournament Raises 000 for Epilepsy
Hundreds of people got downright dirty for epilepsy today. The 20th annual mud volleyball tournament in Rutland was a huge success again this year. Bump, set, spike! It's not your average volleyball game. "It's really really fun to get muddy and wet …
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Anxiety in Epilepsy Linked to Volumetric Brain Changes
MONTREAL — Children with concurrent epilepsy and anxiety have volumetric brain changes similar to those observed in nonepileptic patients with anxiety, new research shows. "Frequently, anxiety in epilepsy is viewed as a result of the unpredictability …
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Island Lake epilepsy patient finds seizure relief
Abraham, of Island Lake, is one of 50 million people worldwide affected by epilepsy. According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, epilepsy is the third most common neurological disorder, with nearly 200,000 new cases diagnosed annually.
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People with epilepsy at risk of long-term social problems
Adults who developed epilepsy during childhood often have social problems, even if they no longer experience seizures, a study has found. Researchers at Dalhousie University in Canada looked at data from a group of 692 adults who had been diagnosed …
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Epilepsy neural modeling
Image by Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne computer scientist Mark Hereld presents a visualization of a computer simulation of neuronal activity in a brain afflicted by epilepsy.