With summer time approaching and children with epilepsy gearing up for summer camp, epilepsy.com wanted to get the inside scoop from the experts who treat and care for these children...
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 ETP New - Children With Vagus Nerve Stimulators (VNS): Issues At Summer Camp
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 josht New - Help Center
Welcome to the epilepsy.com Help Center!
This Help Center is here to walk you through the basics of epilepsy.com. Whether you are a first-time visitor or a returning member, you may have questions as you tour through the site....
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ETP New - History of VNS
A theory about a relationship between the vagus nerve and epilepsy actually dates back to the 1930s. At that time, scientists had discovered the EEG, and, in the process of electrically stimulating different parts of the body, they...
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ETP New - How Well Does VNS Work?
Two important studies of VNS (Ben-Menachem 1994, Handforth 1998) both found a significant reduction in seizure frequency. These were double-blind studies conducted at several medical centers. Each of the patients studied had a VNS...
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ETP New - Other Possibilities
Doctors know that if the first few medicines fail to stop a person's seizures, the chances are not so good that a different medicine will be completely successful. Then it may be time to consider some other type of treatment.
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ETP New - Surgical Options
The two surgical options used most commonly for patients with LGS are corpus callosotomy or vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy. Rarely, patients with LGS may be a candidate for focal removal of the brain tissue initiating the seizures.
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ETP New - Vagus Nerve Stimulation
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is designed to prevent seizures by sending regular, mild pulses of electrical energy to the brain via the vagus nerve. These pulses are supplied by a device something like a pacemaker....
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ETP New - Views and Perspectives
"In the epilepsy field, it has been—give people a pill to take every day, or do brain surgery. The vagus nerve stimulator is part of an emerging field that is hard to fit into the context of other epilepsy treatment. It's...
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