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Direct current transcranial stimulation of the human brain holds promise for helping to improve a variety of neurological functions, including learning and memory.
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In this issue: Aspirin use and AMD risk; using NSAIDs and antihypertensive agents; and FDA actions.
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Herpes simplex virus encephalitis (HSE) is the most common cause of sporadic fatal viral encephalitis. Although the mortality and morbidity of HSE has been significantly reduced due to early antiviral therapy, even after treatment, about 35% of patients have severe neurological sequelae or even death.
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Intravenous (IV) or intra-arterial treatment with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and mechanical clot extraction can limit the damage that some ischemic strokes cause, but they also can cause complications, including hemorrhage into established infarcts.
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Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (jme), sometimes called Janz syndrome, is the most common idiopathic generalized epilepsy and is characterized by multiplicity of seizure types, including myoclonic jerks on awakening, generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and absence seizures.
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Dr. Henchcliffe reports she is on the speakers bureau and advisory board for Allergan and Teva; speakers bureau for Boehringer-Ingelheim, GlaxoSmith-Kline, and Novartis; advisory board for Merz; and is a consultant for Gerson Lehman Group and Guidepoint Global.
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Based on the prior work of patrick kwan and martin brodie, The efectiveness of the first antiepileptic drug (AED) in new-onset epilepsy is nearly 50%.
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In this issue: Apixaban approval; new dental clinical practice guideline; apixaban for VTE; aspirin resistance; tamoxifen treatment; and FDA actions.
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Although many children with a first febrile seizure will have had a simple febrile seizure, a relatively common and benign childhood illness, a subset will present in febrile status epilepticus, the most severe in the spectrum of febrile seizures.
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