Fast, reliable and automatic assessment of the severity of myoclonic jerks from video footage is now possible, thanks to an algorithm using deep convolutional neural network architecture and ...

A 25-year follow-up study reveals that 68% of patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) became seizure-free, with nearly 30% no longer needing antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment. A 25-year ...

Three-year-old had 1,000 seizures a day. Now, she only has a handful, mom says. Addyson Benton, a 3-year-old girl who has epileptic seizures has made a dramatic improvement since moving to Colorado to ...

STEVENAGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Autifony Therapeutics Limited (“Autifony”), which is pioneering the development of novel pharmaceutical treatments for rare CNS disorders and other serious brain ...

At a recent adoption event, Sienna - a 3-year-old lab and pit bull mix - made a beeline for a man she’d never met and gently placed her paw on his leg. “She saw him, and she started pulling on the ...

Sharp high-pitched sounds have been found to cause seizures in older cats. The most commonly reported triggers were the sound of crinkling tin foil, a metal spoon clanging in a ceramic feeding bowl, ...

Loss-of-function mutations in the gene (CSTB) encoding human cystatin B, a widely expressed cysteine protease inhibitor, are responsible for a severe neurological disorder known as Unverricht-Lundborg ...

In juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, data are limited on the genetic basis of networks promoting convulsions with diffuse polyspikes on electroencephalography (EEG) and the subtle microscopic brain ...

A routine pet adoption event at a Virginia church took an extraordinary turn when one of the foster dogs instinctively reacted to an oncoming medical crisis in a stranger — and in doing so, rescued ...