by Ket Patel | Feb 26, 2013 | All Articles For Neurology, Epilepsy, Latest News
In the weeks, months and years after a severe head injury, patients often experience epileptic seizures that are difficult to control. A new study in rats suggests that gently cooling the brain after injury may prevent these seizures. “Traumatic head injury is...
by Ket Patel | Feb 14, 2013 | Latest News
The addition of subthalamic stimulation to medication therapy not only improved the quality of life of patients with early Parkinson’s disease and mild levodopa-induced motor complications but also reduced their subsequent motor disability in a randomized trial...
by Ket Patel | Feb 2, 2013 | All Articles For Neurology, Stroke
Patients who become depressed after having had a stroke are four times more likely to die than those who have not had a stroke and who are not depressed. Results of a large 21-year follow-up study stress the importance of depression screening in poststroke care,...
by Ket Patel | Feb 1, 2013 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Latest News, Schizophrenia
A model using three patient characteristics was a significant predictor of general neurocognitive impairment in patients 3 years after their first episode of a nonaffective psychosis was diagnosed, in a study conducted in Spain. Of the different clinical,...
by Ket Patel | Jan 17, 2013 | All Articles For Neurology, Epilepsy
A majority of pediatricians and family practitioners in a central Texas survey were unsure when pediatric epilepsy should be considered refractory and children should be referred for possible surgery. Researchers from the epilepsy program at the Dell Children’s...
