It also has drugs to treat pain in cancer patients and a drug to help control epileptic seizures.

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Though the UK's Guardian newspaper reports that while Lecerf wasn't injured, he did suffer two epileptic seizures.

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The drug has been used in the past to treat prolonged epileptic seizures.

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Biggs has already suffered two minor heart attacks since returning to the UK, and had three strokes and two epileptic seizures.

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McEwan said he was initially concentrating on the diagnosis of strokes and epileptic seizures, but the device could have more widespread uses.

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They require additional spending on accessories like 3D glasses, and have been linked to unpleasant side effects like strokes and epileptic seizures in some viewers.

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These reports suggested that religiosity originates specifically in the brain's temporal lobe, and that religious visions are the result of epileptic seizures that affect this part of the brain.

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Yet others can be trained to recognize when epileptic seizures are about to occur and then deliver stimulation to the brain to stop the incipient frenzy of brain activity.

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Light on: Epileptic seizures stop.

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The drug's manufacturers, Sanofi, said valproate may be the only medication that effectively controls seizures for some women and to suddenly stop taking any anti-epileptic medication could lead to a recurrence of seizures.

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