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Michigan Medicine scientists have been on a quest to better understand unexpected death in epilepsy, or SUDEP — which claims the lives of roughly 1 in every 1,000 people with epilepsy or other seizure disorders.
University Research | Researching the Brain, Seeking Cures | Parkinson's & Epilepsy | University of MichiganPatients in their late teens and 20s had the highest risk of persistent use if they received opioids around the time of their extraction, a new study finds.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | University of MichiganAn aquarium fish that senses the Earth’s magnetic field as it swims could help unlock how the human brain works and how diseases such as Parkinson’s and other neurological disorders function.
Researching the Brain, Seeking Cures | Parkinson's & Epilepsy | University Research | Michigan State UniversityA national opioid epidemic is driving people from pills to heroin, filling emergency rooms with overdose cases, and killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. What are we doing about it?
University Research | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Emory UniversityIn a study of pregnancy-associated deaths of women from 2007 to 2016, researchers found that mortality involving opioids either during pregnancy or up to one year post-pregnancy more than doubled during that time.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Stony Brook University - The State University of New York“Within the opioid epidemic, there may be a hidden suicide epidemic,” Michigan State University researcher Jennifer Johnson said.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Michigan State UniversityThere is a strong link between depression and opioid-related deaths, according to a new study.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Purdue UniversityClose to 9,000 children and teens in the United States died from opioid poisonings over the last two decades, representing a nearly three-fold increase in mortality rates, Yale researchers said.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Yale UniversityA new neurostimulator developed by engineers at UC Berkeley can listen to and stimulate electric current in the brain at the same time, potentially delivering fine-tuned treatments to patients with diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson’s.
University Research | Researching the Brain, Seeking Cures | Parkinson's & Epilepsy | University of California, BerkeleyBoston Medical Center pediatrician Scott Hadland sees firsthand the effect prescription opioids are having on local youths. He says many adolescents he treats for opioid issues were introduced through prescription drugs.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Boston University