Roddy was very quickly taken to the neonatal intensive care unit after being born, where he suffered seizures. Tests were carried out including a lumbar puncture and an MRI and probes were fitted ...
Thousands of babies have been born hooked on drugs in England over the past decade, new data has revealed. More than 1,000 newborns have received treatment in England’s hospitals each year since 2014 ...
Citation Sample Size/Inclusion Criteria Method/Duration of Cooling Follow-up Findings 27 234 term infants; 116 randomly selected for cooling and 118 selected for control. Sixteen infants were lost ...
Some childhood disorders can produce very specific and profound types of aphasia. The Landau-Kleffner syndrome is a condition characterized by seizures and a distinctive pattern of EEG abnormalities ...
The stimulator sends regular, mild electrical stimulations through this nerve to help calm down the irregular electrical brain activity that leads to seizures. There are several ways to treat epilepsy ...
Epilepsy was seen in 21 cases (6%) and was felt to be definite in half of these cases. Mean age of seizure onset was 7 years and was within a year of onset of tics in 33% of the epilepsy cases. In 4-6 ...
Dystonia is a common disorder of movement and tone, characterised by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions causing abnormal movements, postures or both. Children and young people with dystonia ...