We are in a mental health crisis in this community. And not enough is being done to avert it.
According to a peer-reviewed journal article from Epilepsy and Behavior, statistics concluded that people with epilepsy are 22 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.
We are in a mental health crisis in this community. And not enough is being done to avert it.
According to a peer-reviewed journal article from Epilepsy and Behavior, statistics concluded that people with epilepsy are 22 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.
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absence of seizures,
AEDS,
current depression,
neurologist and psychiatrist partnerships,
newly diagnosed patients,
psychiatric conditions,
quality of life,
suicidal thoughts,
surgery
Most people don’t want to think about death and dying — so they don’t. Until they have to.
Unfortunately, that often means that families are left struggling with difficult decisions about important matters, such as whether or not Mom would like to be kept alive using a ventilator, or who should be in charge of managing Dad’s financial affairs.
Because Mom or Dad never made clear what they wanted for themselves…
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advance health directives,
appoint an agent,
end of life decisions,
finacial affairs,
health-care proxy,
legal instructions,
life-threatening illness,
living will,
medical care,
medical power of attorney,
quality of life,
state's advance directives
It’s only recently that Neuroengineering first appeared.
Neuroengineering is a discipline at the frontier between neuroscience and engineering.
It encompasses experimental, computational, theoretical, clinical and applied aspects of research areas at the molecular, cellular and systems levels.
The emergence of this new field focuses on a multi-science combination of engineers, neuroscientists and clinicians using their combined knowledge and talent, working co-operatively to address the complexity of the brain and nervous system.
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brain,
clinicians,
engineers,
enhancement,
Epilepsy,
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multi-science,
Neuroengineering,
neuroscientists,
quality of life,
restoration,
seizure-free,
surgery,
underlying seizures