NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jan 7 - While dental injury during seizures is rare in patients with epilepsy, it occurs more frequently in those with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), according to ...

Researh groups from the University of Helsinki, the LMU Munich and the University of Guelph have described in collaboration a novel myoclonic epilepsy in dogs and identified its genetic cause. The ...

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 of ...

Background. A 20-year-old woman presented to a specialist epilepsy center with a 3-year history of drug-resistant epileptic seizures, progressive myoclonus, ataxia, and cognitive decline.

Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have contributed to a decades-long global effort that has revealed two new gene mutations that cause a rare type of epilepsy. The Institute ...

A new study shows that wearable sensor technology can be used to reliably assess the occurrence of myoclonic jerks in patients with epilepsy also in the home environment. A new study by the University ...

A collaborative study describes a novel myoclonic epilepsy syndrome in dogs for the first time and discovers its genetic cause at DIRAS1 gene. The affected dogs developed myoclonic seizures at young ...

Researchers aimed to identify the characteristics, treatment pathways, and outcomes associated with epilepsy with eyelid myoclonia (EEM). Epilepsy with eyelid myoclonia (EEM) is a rare and ...

A 20-year-old woman presented to a specialist epilepsy center with seizures, myoclonus, ataxia, and impaired executive functions. She was born to unrelated parents, had febrile seizures in infancy, ...