epilepsy
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Billy Caldwell, from Castlederg in County Tyrone, has a severe form of epilepsy, which at one point had him suffering hundreds of "life-threatening" seizures a day.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Rapamycin reversed abnormal patterns of gene expression involving autism, epilepsy, and ion channel function.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The recordings were made while patients undergoing epilepsy surgery were under general anesthesia.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
Stephanie Reed, 39, from Chorley, says it's important for her to stay cool because extreme heat triggers her epilepsy.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
He has epilepsy, but trust me when I say it doesn’t keep him from being your typical annoying sixth-grade sibling.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
In contrast to many of the focal epilepsies, it is the inhibitory response of interneurons that fuels absence seizures.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
Still, about 30% of epilepsies do not respond to pharmaceuticals, which prompted the search for alternative treatments.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
Electrophysiology insights could guide more sophisticated monitoring of cortical epilepsies and possibly other focal epilepsies as well.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
But dentate gating seems to break down in temporal-lobe epilepsies affecting the hippocampus, resulting in unrestrained, synchronized firing of granule cells.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought.
From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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