SCN2A‑related developmental epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) is a rare, severe form of childhood epilepsy and one of the most ...

Epilepsy affects more than 50 million people worldwide, making it one of the most common neurological disorders. Although ...

The two-year treatment targeting protein production by disease-causing mutations dramatically reduced seizures and sparked ...

ELECTRIC convulsive therapy has been used for the last three years at the Foxborough State Hospital and has become the chief form of physical therapy in the treatment of psychoses of psychogenic ...

Status epilepticus - continuous or rapid sequential seizure activity for 30 minutes or more - is a medical emergency with a high mortality rate in both children and adults. Prompt and effective ...

A convulsion is an episode in which you experience rigidity and uncontrolled muscle spasms along with altered consciousness. The spasms cause jerky motions that generally last a minute or two.

Of all treatments in contemporary psychiatry, perhaps none is more commonly misunderstood than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Its depiction in the popular media and in movies such as One Flew Over ...

A demonstrates a roentgenogram of the chest immediately before electroshock, and B one at the height of the tonic phase of the seizure, twenty seconds after the start of the convulsion. The following ...

IN an earlier communication 1, I reported a finding indicating that the power dissipated in the subcutaneous tissues, where the receptors lie, is the parameter most relevant to the determination of ...