Showing posts with label Epilepsy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Epilepsy. Show all posts

Girl, 5, now able to ’shine’ after epilepsy surgery removes half her brain - Daily Mail 21st November 2008

Monday, November 24, 2008

A five-year-old girl who suffered from severe epilepsy has been transformed by an operation that removed half her brain.

Constant epileptic activity left Brooklyn Bauer walking on her knees and speaking in two-word phrases, and three years of different treatments had failed to help.

tags: IHN, Health, News, Epilepsy, Neurology, Surgery, Daily Mail

'Sticky cell' clues to epiliepsy - BBC Health News 23rd November 2008

A faulty immune reaction may be responsible for the development of epilepsy, research suggests.

Studies in mice by US and Italian researchers linked seizures to brain changes which made immune cells stick inside its blood vessels.

Link to Article

tags: Immunology, Epilepsy, IHN, Health, News, BBC Health News