In the United States, epilepsy affects nearly one million women of childbearing age. Many women with epilepsy experience seizure exacerbations around the time of their menstrual periods, and that is thought to do to the cyclic hormones during the menstrual cycle, said Dr. Cynthia Harden, director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Center at North Shore-LIJ Health System. We are working on ways to treat specifically those hormone-exacerbated seizures for women with epilepsy. Years ago, women with the condition were discouraged from getting pregnant, but now, thanks to prenatal care and new treatment options, more than 90 percent of them deliver healthy babies, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. The most important thing that a neurologist will discuss with you is whether the seizures are under good control, said Harden. We really need to have the patient doing well with well-controlled seizures, hopefully no seizures or very mild, very infrequent seizures going into pregnancy. Medications often play an integral role in controlling seizures in epileptic women looking to conceive, Harden explained. Most of the medications we use have a fairly low-risk as far as birth defects, said Harden. So if the woman with epilepsy is taking one of those medications, usually its … Continue reading →

23-06-2012 23:23 Dr Rima Laibow Speaks on Codex Alimentarius Global Eugenics -- Using Medicine To Kill' is a feature length documentary using a collaboration of various materials. It covers topics such as the swine flu, vaccines and vaccinations, quarantine, water, depopulation, eugenics, Monsanto, gm seeds, Agenda 21, and Codex Alimentarius. In 2008, BA Brooks, a director specialized in meanwhile at The New York Film Academy in the creation of digital movies, launched his first exclusive documentary created with videos downloaded from YouTube, a technique that was used successfully in the documentary at hand, Global EUGENlCS -- Using Medicine to Kill, from 2009, which in over two hours of footage, he could afford to treat a wide range of topics: the avian flu and swine and their possible genetic manipulation, the vaccines and the aggressive vaccination campaigns, the origins of AIDS / HIV , martial law, medical news, water, GD Searle and genetically modified food, Agenda 21 -- the imposition of "sustainable development", HR 875 -- the legislation enforcement of the Codex Alimentarius in the US and others, all of which can be grouped under a single logo -- eugenic politics. Follow this link: Dr Rima Laibow 4/4 Speaks on Codex … Continue reading →

23-06-2012 23:23 Dr Rima Laibow Speaks on Codex Alimentarius Global Eugenics -- Using Medicine To Kill' is a feature length documentary using a collaboration of various materials. It covers topics such as the swine flu, vaccines and vaccinations, quarantine, water, depopulation, eugenics, Monsanto, gm seeds, Agenda 21, and Codex Alimentarius. In 2008, BA Brooks, a director specialized in meanwhile at The New York Film Academy in the creation of digital movies, launched his first exclusive documentary created with videos downloaded from YouTube, a technique that was used successfully in the documentary at hand, Global EUGENlCS -- Using Medicine to Kill, from 2009, which in over two hours of footage, he could afford to treat a wide range of topics: the avian flu and swine and their possible genetic manipulation, the vaccines and the aggressive vaccination campaigns, the origins of AIDS / HIV , martial law, medical news, water, GD Searle and genetically modified food, Agenda 21 -- the imposition of "sustainable development", HR 875 -- the legislation enforcement of the Codex Alimentarius in the US and others, all of which can be grouped under a single logo -- eugenic politics. See the rest here: Dr Rima Laibow 3/4 Speaks on … Continue reading →

23-06-2012 23:24 Dr Rima Laibow Speaks on Codex Alimentarius Global Eugenics -- Using Medicine To Kill' is a feature length documentary using a collaboration of various materials. It covers topics such as the swine flu, vaccines and vaccinations, quarantine, water, depopulation, eugenics, Monsanto, gm seeds, Agenda 21, and Codex Alimentarius. In 2008, BA Brooks, a director specialized in meanwhile at The New York Film Academy in the creation of digital movies, launched his first exclusive documentary created with videos downloaded from YouTube, a technique that was used successfully in the documentary at hand, Global EUGENlCS -- Using Medicine to Kill, from 2009, which in over two hours of footage, he could afford to treat a wide range of topics: the avian flu and swine and their possible genetic manipulation, the vaccines and the aggressive vaccination campaigns, the origins of AIDS / HIV , martial law, medical news, water, GD Searle and genetically modified food, Agenda 21 -- the imposition of "sustainable development", HR 875 -- the legislation enforcement of the Codex Alimentarius in the US and others, all of which can be grouped under a single logo -- eugenic politics. Read the rest here: Dr Rima Laibow 2/4 Speaks on … Continue reading →

ScienceDaily (June 23, 2012) The commonly-used epilepsy drug, valproic acid (VPA), can have a highly beneficial effect on some babies born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the number one genetic killer during early infancy. But in about two-thirds of such cases it is either damaging or simply has no effect. Now, for the first time, researchers have found a way to identify which patients are likely to respond well to VPA prior to starting treatment. Their results have major implications, not just for SMA patients, but for other conditions treated with the drug such as migraine and epilepsy, and may even provide the conditions for turning VPA non-responders into responders, the researchers say. Dr. Lutz Garbes, from the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany, will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics on June 24 that he and his colleagues had analysed blood RNA samples from a small group of SMA patients who had been treated with VPA. They found, as expected, that only about one third of patients responded well. In an attempt to discover whether blood sampling was the most appropriate test method to use, they also looked at VPA response in … Continue reading →

Japanese researchers say people with autism usually gauge warmth or hostility through verbal rather than visual indicators such as facial expressions, and have identified the area of the brain that determines the process, according to a study released Saturday. The findings could lead to the development of an objective method to diagnose communication disorders or even a treatment for the symptoms, they said. "Autistic patients are known to have difficulty understanding jokes or ironic remarks where facial expressions and verbal content are incongruent, and the latest results underline this," said Hidenori Yamasue, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo who participated in the study. The research, published online by the PLoS ONE scientific journal, studied 15 adult males with autism spectrum disorders but no mental disabilities. The subjects were shown videos of a smiling actor reading negative words such as "dirty," and another with a disgusted expression saying positive words, such as "great." They were then asked to determine if the actors were friendly or hostile while changes in their brain activity were monitored via functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results showed they tended to place a greater emphasis on words instead of nonverbal cues and that brain activity … Continue reading →

An on-and-off switch for the brain being pioneered by Australian neuroscientists is giving hope to stroke and Parkinson's disease sufferers with speech problems. A technique known as transcranial magnetic stimulation, which has previously been used to treat depression, has produced encouraging results in trials conducted by the University of Queensland. A coil shaped like a figure-eight is held over a patient's head to try to switch on a part of the brain in Parkinson's sufferers and switch off a different part in stroke victims. 'The actual technology was developed back in the mid-80s but it sort of sat around for a while,' Professor Bruce Murdoch told AAP ahead of Speech Pathology Australia's national conference in Hobart. 'Now it's starting to come to the fore and people are starting to recognise that the brain is much more plastic ... it can heal itself much better than we ever thought it could. 'This seems to be a way of helping the brain to sort of rewire itself.' The trial has produced improvements over 12 months in long-term patients with both conditions who have already been through traditional therapies. Parkinson's sufferers, 85 per cent of whom experience speech or language difficulties, are improving … Continue reading →