A 72-year-old woman with a complex medical and psychiatric history presents in your office with a 1-month history of irritability, slowing of movements, poor concentration, and tremor. Confusion and ...

Research groups have described in collaboration a novel myoclonic epilepsy in dogs and identified its genetic cause. The study reveals a novel candidate gene for human myoclonic epilepsies, one of the ...

Fast, reliable and automatic assessment of the severity of myoclonic jerks from video footage is now possible, thanks to an algorithm using deep convolutional neural network architecture and ...

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 ...

Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (BAFME), alternatively named familial adult myoclonic epilepsy 1/familial cortical myoclonic tremor with epilepsy 1 (FAME1/FCMTE1), is a hereditary epileptic ...

‘Early myoclonic encephalopathy’ (ILAE; OMIM 609304) is one of the catastrophic epilepsies starting in the neonatal period. Prognosis is generally poor with early death in half of the patients. The ...

Seizures are characterized by abnormal changes in the brain’s electrical activity. These changes can cause loss of consciousness or involuntary movements, like shaking or jerking. If you have two or ...

A new study by the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital shows that wearable sensor technology can be used to reliably assess the occurrence of myoclonic jerks in patients with ...

Serum and urine studies were sent to a major medical clinic, and the patient's bismuth subsalicylate was withheld. Serum and urine studies came back significantly elevated, with serum levels of 397 ng ...