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Seizures
A seizure is a sudden, uncontrolled, electrical impulse in the brain. Seizures can alter behavior and muscle movement. There are four types of seizures: (1) tonic (muscle stiffness), (2) atonic (muscles relax), (3) myoclonic (brief jerking of muscles), (4) clonic (extended periods of shaking or jerking muscles).
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OCT 09, 2016
Plants & Animals
When you make things illegal, people will almost always find ways to smuggle it behind closed doors so the law can&rsquo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 13, 2016
Microbiology
After performing the first genome wide screen of Apicomplexa, researchers have identified a potential mechanism for the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 12, 2016
Cardiology
Scientists have reason to believe that most congenital heart defects are a result of a painfully complicated web of gene
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 05, 2016
Neuroscience
A rare but often fatal heart condition known as Long QT Syndrome (LQTS) is getting some new attention from a study done
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 27, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Neurons signal to each other throughout the body using a connection called a synapse. While they are very small, they ar
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 26, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Microcephaly is a rare developmental defect that causes an infant’s head to be smaller than normal at birth. While
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 22, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Summer is prime time for activities on the river. But a swim in the river turned into a life-threatening event for a Flo
...
AUG 17, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
It’s tragically ironic that in medicine, sometimes the cure is almost as harmful as the poison. This is the case f
...
AUG 06, 2016
Videos
Harvard Medical School recently hosted the first annual cannabis conference, where they awarded Rafael Mechoulam a lifet
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JUL 13, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In a new study, ominously titled “The Lick of Death,” doctors report friendly licks from her beloved Italian
...
JUN 27, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Almost 80,000 people die each year worldwide due to brain inflammation diseases, and it’s hard to know how many of
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 20, 2016
Neuroscience
Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder in the United States and affects people of all ages. It’s
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 02, 2016
Health & Medicine
For newborns in neonatal intensive care units with rare and complex diseases that doctors do not come across on a regula
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 20, 2016
Cannabis Sciences
Hardly a week goes by without some news of new research into concussion injuries. Most of the focus is on the NFL and th
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 19, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Mosquitos and Zika have dominated the headlines in the last several months. But in the midst of Zika, other mosquito-bor
...
APR 07, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Researchers in Germany recently received a two million Euro subsidy from the German Federal Ministry of Research (BMBF)
...
MAR 31, 2016
Videos
Synthetic drugs are those created with man-made chemicals that mimic responses from natural compounds. On the market, th
...
MAR 30, 2016
Neuroscience
Patients who have experienced certain cardiac conditions or blood clots often are placed on blood thinners to avoid furt
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 18, 2016
Health & Medicine
The genetic culprit behind a rare recessive disorder has been identified, further allowing for great reaches into person
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 13, 2016
Videos
Every organism we know of requires water to survive, so it's hard to think of something as valuable as water as potentia
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAR 08, 2016
Cardiology
Malaria killed about 440,000 people—mostly young children—last year, but a new drug candidate may help fight
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 06, 2016
Videos
Calling someone a half-brain or describing a person as thinking with half a brain is often as an insult. But the brain i
...
MAR 02, 2016
Neuroscience
“Beam me up, Scotty!” That’s something we are more used to hearing on Star Trek as opposed to in
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 03, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists in China will celebrate an extra special Chinese New Year, as they have just unveiled a set of genetic modifi
...