Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a seizure disorder that begins during childhood or adolescence. It is sometimes called ...

Six rare disease organizations have co-funded a $275,000 grant to Orrin Devinsky, MD, of NYU Grossman School of Medicine, to ...

Are you searching for medications to treat 'Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy'? Welcome to this page which serves as an archive for medications that are relevant to the treatment of Juvenile Myoclonic ...

A recent report has described the use of video-electroencephalography (video-EEG) in the management of patients with atypical juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). The work highlights the importance ...

Your brain contains billions of nerve cells called neurons that communicate with each other by sending and receiving electrical impulses. A seizure occurs when there is sudden abnormal electrical ...

United Way KFL&A kick-started its campaign fundraiser with a pancake breakfast in hopes of raising nearly $4 million by the ...

The identities of the women involved in the cases have been withheld, but minutes from an HFEA committee meeting said they both had myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibres, or MERRF syndrome ...

Well, that fall into the void has a name—hypnic jerk—and it’s your muscles contracting in a form of myoclonic twitch. Tony Ware is the Editor, Commerce & Gear for PopSci.com (and PopPhoto.com).

Fiona French from Aberdeen says the prescription drug she was put on 40 years ago led to decades of suffering that only ended after a three-year withdrawal which she describes as "hell and torture ...

At the age of five months, the children presented with repeated vomiting and developed strabismus, progressive muscular hypotonia, myoclonic epilepsy and psychomotor regression. A cranial CT-scan ...

Unfortunately, many medicines for epilepsy can interact with common prescription and over-the-counter medicines. Epilepsy drugs can prevent some medicines from working normally, and other ...