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Scientists develop epilepsy warning device

Agence France-PresseMay 2, 2013 07:00

A tiny device implanted in the brain of epilepsy sufferers has for the fist time been able to predict the onset of seizures, scientists reported on Thursday. The potentially life-saving device works with electrodes that monitor electrical activity on the brain surface, they wrote in The Lancet Neurology. The electrodes were connected to a second device implanted under the skin of the chest, which transmitted the data wirelessly to a hand-held device that calculated the probability of a seizure.

U.S. launches ambitious initiative to explore human brain

Agencia EFEApril 2, 2013 17:31

Washington, Apr 2 (EFE).- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced an ambitious multidisciplinary program to create a map of the human brain that could help cure diseases such as Alzheimer's and epilepsy. "We have been a nation of dreamers and risk-takers," said Obama in the East Room of the White House before an audience including several of the scientists and businessmen taking part in the project.

Japan tsunami stress may have brought on seizures: study

Thomson ReutersJanuary 20, 2013 22:15

Jan 21 (Reuters) - The number of seizure patients in a northern Japanese fishing community devastated by the March 11, 2011 tsunami spiked in the weeks following the disaster, according to a Japanese study. The study, published in the journal Epilepsia, looked at 440 patient records from Kesennuma City Hospital, in a city that was devastated by the massive tsunami touched off by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake.