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NINDS Information Sheet on Seizures and Epilepsy: Hope through Research

NINDS Dysautonomia Information Page - What is Dysautonomia - Treatment - Prognosis - Research - Clinical Trials - Organizations

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Mayo research study to determine if there are enough patients with hard to treat epilepsy that might qualify for a future study of a medical device that is being developed to treat epilepsy. Participants will not be testing the device during this study. The study doctor will be assessing seizure type(s) and determine how frequently they occur, and to verify if antiseizure medications can be held constant for a period of 12 weeks.

New England Journal of Medicine abstract of study to evaluate the effects of induction of moderate hypothermia in infants who had perinatal asphyxia. Study concluded that Induction of moderate hypothermia for 72 hours in infants who had perinatal asphyxia did not significantly reduce the combined rate of death or severe disability but resulted in improved neurologic outcomes in survivors. (Current Controlled Trials number, ISRCTN89547571 [controlled-trials.com] .)

Hypotonia Information at NINDS - Includes description - treatment options - prognosis - research - clinical trials and organizations

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In the new study, researchers led by Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.MSc., of the University of Rochester , showed that glutamate produced by astrocytes can trigger seizures.

NINDS: What other conditions are associated with cerebral palsy?

Nonprofit membership organization of basic scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system. World's largest organization of scientists devoted to the study of the brain.

Government sponsored effort designed to provide early incentives that encourage and facilitate the discovery of new therapeutic agency.

Study will examine how the brain controls speech in patients with spasmodic dysphonia, a voice disorder that involves involuntary spasms of muscles in the larynx (voice box), causing breaks in speech. Although the causes of spasmodic dysphonia are unknown, recent studies found changes in brain function in patients with the disorder that may play a role in its development.

National Institutes of Halth Clinic Center study to: 1) characterize and compare lower extremity motor coordination in children with cerebral palsy (CP) across mobility levels and to children without CP; and 2) evaluate the effects of two home-based exercise programs on motor coordination, as well as other physical, functional and neurological outcomes in children with CP

Current ongoing study being conducted to determine whether the plasticity of autologous intrathecal hematopoietic cells would improve the neurologic evolution of the pediatric patients with hypoxic ischemic brain injury.

Mayo Clinic researchers are looking at a new procedure that involves surgically placing a Responsive Neurostimulator (RNS) in the brain that may be able to suppress seizures in patients with epilepsy

Study being conducted to learn about the effects (both good and bad) of a brain stimulating device known as the External Responsive Neurostimulating System. This is an investigational device that was designed to detect seizure activity and give an electrical stimulation to the brain to try to stop it

Study to obtain pharmacokinetic and safety data of bumetanide in newborns with refractory seizures. The overall hypothesis is that bumetanide, added to conventional antiepileptic (antiseizure) medications, will be a safe and well tolerated medication, compared with conventional antiepileptic drugs alone.

Study to assess the development and neurological status of all children who were diagnosed as "mild ventriculomegaly" during the pregnancy in the last 6 years and to prospectively follow up all the children who will be diagnosed from the beginning of the study on for 6 years.

NINDS sponsored and multi-center collaborative study will establish a database of information about stroke in infants and children

Study sponsored by Imperial College London - Hypothesis: Study aims to determine whether whole body cooling to 33-34°C is a safe treatment that improves survival, without severe neurological or neurodevelopmental impairments at 18 months, of term infants suffering perinatal asphyxial encephalopathy