NEW YORK, Jan 19: In a devastated fishing community in northeastern Japan, the number of seizure patients spiked during the weeks following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, according to a small new study that concludes disasters may put at least some people at heightened risk. ‘Stress itself is not a universal risk factor for seizures,’ said lead author Dr. Ichiyo Shibahara, a staff neurosurgeon at Sendai Medical Center in Japan. ‘Most of the seizure patients had some sort of neurological disease before the earthquake.’ (agencies)
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