The ministry that we have started is called, “Cadanino” which generally means each child. We chose the name because we believe that God values and loves each and every child. We believe that every child is worthy and needs individualized love and attention. Cadanino is the US based organization that supports our work here in Guatemala at the government run residential center, “Centro...
Day By Day By me The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy (NCYPE) and Great Ormond Street Hospital have produced a freely available diary for children who suffer from seizures, with front cover designed by Tracey Beaker illustrator, Nick...
"I'm gonna say this as nice as I can. But you look like a sad clown hooker." We are still in the throes of turkey and carb overload-induced coma while simultaneously attempting to gear ourselves up for what we hope is a mere toe-dip into Black Friday madness, and since this was a pretty disjointed episode that recycled a lot of the same old conflicts, we're only up for bullet points and...
A seizure is a sudden spurt of abnormal electrical activity in the brain. While the causes can be varied and complex, the Epilepsy Foundation offers this list of common triggers:
This is a case of 38 yr old female who presented to us with a history of convulsions. MR imaging brain was performed and a small focus of splenium hyperintensity is noted on diffusion weighted and slightly hyperintense on FLAIR images. Discussion Focal splenial hyperintensity has been reported in patients with clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy, epilepsy, in association with antiepileptic...
Purpose Pharmaco-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is often treated with surgical intervention at some point. As epilepsy surgery is considered a last resort by most physicians, a long history of epileptic seizures prior to surgery is not uncommon. Little is known about the effects of ongoing TLE on neural functioning. A better understanding of these effects might influence the moment of surgical...
Elizabeth Samulewicz has seen her kids turn blue, watched them pitch headfirst down flights of stairs and known that every one of their epileptic seizures - and there can be up to eight a day - may end in death. But when asked who are the strong ones in the...
Raymond Tallis was Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester until he left to become a full-time writer in 2006. He is the author of more than 250 medical publications. In 2007 Tallis was presented with the Lord Cohen Gold Medal for Research into ageing and in the same year the Healthwatch Award for promoting evidence-based medicine. He was elected fellow of the Academy of Medical...
Cellular prion protein (PrPc) plays an essential role in maintaining neurotransmitter homeostasis in the central nervous system. This discovery has been made possible by the observation that both a deficiency and an excess of the protein have a considerable effect on this homeostasis. Surprisingly, in both cases, the central nervous excitability threshold is altered to such an extent that an epileptic...
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An intriguing and tragic story of brain damage is reported in the latest issue of Neurocase : Klüver-Bucy syndrome, hypersexuality, and the law . The authors are Devinsky, Sacks, and Devinsky - Sacks being neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks . Their anonymous patient, a 51 year old married American man, is currently serving a jail sentence for downloading child pornography. But he's not your...
Filed under: Major movement , Bad news , Newspapers , Magazines , Options , Technical Analysis Valeant Pharmaceuticals ( VRX - option chain ) stock is trading lower today after an article in Barron's (subscription required) over the weekend said the company could see trouble ahead if its experimental epilepsy drug, which is undergoing the regulatory review process, is not profitable enough to offset...
It is Brian E Hodges who created Hodges' model in the early 1980s and one of his qualifications is RNMH - Registered Nurse for the Mentally Handicapped . Today this course and qualification is known as RNLD, that is - Registered Nurse for Learning Disability. What has not changed is the foresightedness and need for a political care domain within the model. You might well ask: What is so foresighted...
Top Idiots Of The Week Nancy Morgan RightBias.com November 23, 2009 AND THE WINNER IS: The British Arts Council wins top spot this week. They gave £14,000 of taxpayer money to an epileptic dancer to quit taking her meds so she could have an epileptic seizure on stage . This 'art' is being billed as a study of the “conceptual and physical interfaces between dance, movement and epilepsy.”...
"According To You" has been unavoidable on Australian radio for the past month and is currently sitting pretty in the national top 20. My copy of the single finally arrived today, which inspired me to write about Orianthi's amazing ode to bad boyfriends. Chalk this up as another fine example of a local act - see Vanessa Amorosi - jumping on board Katy Perry's pop-rock bandwagon with great...
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