Experts say epilepsy can happen due to various reasons. The most common is genetic, but it can also result from brain strokes, tumors, injuries to the head, or a weak nervous system.
The lack of awareness further perpetuates the already existing stigma around epilepsy and persons with epilepsy face discrimination and harassment for education, employment and marriage, he added.
The experts will study around 80,000 women recruited from three major hospitals in south India - the Bangalore Medical College, the Madras Medical College and the Calicut Medical College.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is doing a research on the medicinal use of cannabis for treating diseases like cancer, epilepsy and sickle cell anaemia.
Thickness and volume differences in the grey matter of several brain regions could predict an increased risk of developing epilepsy.
Risk of oral clefts is most pronounced in women taking higher doses of topiramate to treat epilepsy.
Administering marijuana compound may help reduce the frequency of seizures in patients with a rare and severe form of epilepsy…
For people suffering with epilepsy, facing stressful events such as the war, trauma or natural disaster, or the death of…
