Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a type of epilepsy that starts in childhood or the teen years. People who have it wake up from sleep with quick, jerking movements of their arms and legs. These ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Myoclonic epilepsy' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

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.

The severity of epilepsy-related muscle pricking symptoms can be reliably estimated with artificial intelligence, according to a recent study. An artificial intelligence-based tool was used to analyze ...

What Is Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME)? Also known as Janz syndrome, JME is a common generalised epilepsy disorder that typically begins in adolescence or early adulthood. It is characterised by ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy? Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is an epileptic condition that develops in children and adolescents, invariably between the ages of 8 and 26 with most of the ...

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 ...