Category: Neurology And Neurosurgery
Does a specialized diet help adults with epilepsy? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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High fat, some protein, very few carbohydrates. That’s largely what constitutes a ketogenic diet, developed 100 years ago to help control epilepsy in children and adults. Now the diet is first line treatment for certain metabolic disorders and is gaining …
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Can a high fat diet keep seizures under control for people with epilepsy? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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The ketogenic diet is a very high fat and very low carbohydrate diet that helps both children and adults with epilepsy control their seizures, and the diet is now celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary. Eric Kossoff, a neurologist and pediatric ketogenic …
The common condition epilepsy can be helped with a special diet, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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It’s the 100th anniversary of the so-called ‘ketogenic’ diet, which helps to control epilepsy in children and adults, and can even allow some of them to stop taking medications for the condition. Eric Kossoff, a neurologist and pediatric ketogenic diet expert …
The ketogenic diet is turning 100, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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The ketogenic diet, which relies on fats and proteins as energy sources and avoids carbohydrates, actually began 100 years ago as a means to control epilepsy in both adults and children and was also used for a host of other …
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Policy Change
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Anchor lead: Barriers to universal access to telestroke services need political will to overcome, Elizabeth Tracey reports With Zoom and other technologies employed nationally, why can’t some people who have strokes receive expert opinions on treatment and management via telestroke? …