Research involving eight children shows electroencephalogram abnormalities improved between 20 per cent and 80 per cent in seven of the eight patients.
Researchers exploring if CBD-enriched cannabis oil as an add-on therapy could help eight children with a syndrome characterized by spasms found that four of them had less than half of the seizures they had before the trial.
The National Organization for Rare Diseases defines West syndrome (WS) as “a constellation of symptoms characterized by epileptic/infantile spasms, abnormal brain wave patterns called hypsarrhythmia and intellectual disability.” Spasms range from violent jackknife movements, “where the whole body bends in half, or they may be no more than a mild twitching of the shoulder or eye changes.”
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