by Ket Patel | Dec 7, 2011 | All Videos For Neurology, Epilepsy
Cyclical natural progesterone appears to reduce the frequency of catamenial seizures in some women, a placebo-controlled study has found. Women with a large number of perimenstrually exacerbated seizures who used progesterone experienced a significant decrease in...
by Ket Patel | Dec 6, 2011 | All Videos For Neurology, Neuro-Oncology
Gamma Knife surgery significantly reduced the number of seizures in a subset of patients with rare congenital tumors, based on data from a prospective trial of 64 patients presented at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society. Hypothalamic hamartomas...
by Ket Patel | Dec 6, 2011 | All Videos For Neurology, Neurosurgery
Despite the very real chance of living a seizure-free life, many epilepsy patients with an excellent surgical prognosis continue to walk away from the procedures. Researchers at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society agreed: It’s not always easy to...
by Ket Patel | Dec 6, 2011 | All Videos For Neurology, Epilepsy
Gamma Knife surgery significantly reduced the number of seizures in a subset of patients with rare congenital tumors, based on data from a prospective trial of 64 patients presented at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society. Hypothalamic hamartomas...
by Ket Patel | Dec 3, 2011 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders
Major Finding: Women and blacks with Parkinson’s disease both had 23% lower odds of receiving care from a neurologist than did men and whites, after adjustment for covariates. Data Source: An analysis of more than 138,000 incident cases of Parkinson’s...
