Tag: seizures and epilepsy
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Seizure Sniffing Dog Learns to Protect Teenage Girl
A seizure sniffing dog gives people with epilepsy a better quality of life. For 18-year-old Haley, her dog Dunkin has been a life-saver, literally. “I don’t think I could ever fully express everything positive that Dunkin has brought into my life,” Haley said, “whether it be independence so I could go out by myself and…
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Researchers Find an Amino Acid That May Reduce Epilepsy
Researchers from the Florida State University College of Medicine found that amino acids in the brain may help prevent epilepsy. A certain type of seizure called temporal lobe epilepsy can lead to permanent damage, including the death and loss of function of neurons. Researchers believe that amino acids could play a vital role in preventing…
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Researchers Reveal Blood Test That Can Prevent Seizures
Do you struggle with seizures? Does someone you know have epilepsy? The experience of knowing our body and brain could fail us at any moment is frightening. This may entail waking from sudden darkness, deeply confused as to how we ended up on the ground, extremely weak, our head pounding, possibly drenched in our urine,…