Monday 21 January 2013

Japan tsunami stress may have brought on seizures: study

Family visit the spot where their house, washed away by the March 11, 2011 tsunami, used to stand in Higashimatsushima (Reuters) - The number of seizure patients in a northern Japanese fishing community devastated by the March 11, 2011 tsunami spiked in the weeks following the disaster, according to a Japanese study. The study, published in the journal Epilepsia, looked at 440 patient records from Kesennuma City Hospital, in a city that was devastated by the massive tsunami touched off by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake. Thirteen patients were admitted with seizures in the eight weeks after the disaster, but only one had been admitted in the two months before March 11. ...




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