Epilepsy News

What to know about epilepsy and seizure first aid - November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. Many people may already be aware of the condition from its prevalence in medical dramas, but that portrayal is often exaggerated and does not fully encapsulate ...

First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model expedites access to specialists after a first seizure. The mean time between the referral and the ...

Understanding epilepsy: Seven ways to respond to an epileptic seizure - At the forefront of epilepsy research and treatment is the University of Alabama at Birmingham Epilepsy Center, a collaborative initiative between the UAB Department of Neurology and UAB Hospital, ...

Seizure Burden in Resistant Epilepsy May Ease With the Tincture of Time - Nearly 70% of patients with focal treatment-resistant epilepsy (FTRE) experience fewer seizures over time, new results of a multicenter study showed. However, the improvements occurred independent of ...

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Sleep could encode epileptic seizures in the brain by repurposing the processes used to solidify memories, potentially making seizures harder to treat or prevent, new research suggests. But the new ...

Cardiac impact of epilepsy: a global longitudinal strain-based evaluation - CONCLUSION: Despite preserved some conventional echocardiographic findings, patients with epilepsy demonstrate significant subclinical myocardial deformation abnormalities detectable by strain imaging. Incorporation of speckle-tracking echocardiography into routine cardiovascular evaluation may facilitate early identification of myocardial involvement and improve cardiovascular risk stratificat...

Diagnostic value of stand-alone videos after inconclusive inpatient EEG-video monitoring - Inpatient electroencephalographic (EEG)-video monitoring occasionally fails to capture the events in question, leaving patients without a definitive diagnosis. Management after an inconclusive admission is generally limited to repeating monitoring or empirical adjustment of antiseizure medications. Although stand-alone videos are increasingly used in clinical practice, their diagnostic value in...

FRONTAL DISCONNECTION IN A CASE OF MILD MALFORMATION OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT WITH OLIGODENDROGLIAL HYPERPLASIA AND EPILEPSY - Frontal disconnection is an effective technique for the treatment of different forms of drug-resistant epilepsy associated with lobar encephalopathies. We describe the case of a 7-year-old child who underwent right prefrontal disconnection and anterior insular resection. The procedure involves sequential steps aiming to interrupt both inter-hemispheric and intra-hemispheric anterior white matte...

Do classical semiology ("5As") predict the post-operative seizure outcome in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy? - CONCLUSION: A history of febrile seizures was linked to better post-operative outcomes, whereas encephalitis and behavioral arrest were associated with poorer prognosis. The presence or absence of any combination of classic features (5As) did not significantly affect the success of anterior temporal lobectomy.

Level of consciousness, wakefulness and responsiveness in epileptic seizures - No abstract

The application of the unscented Kalman filter in epilepsy research: a review - Epilepsy is a complex neurological disorder characterized by nonlinear dynamic interactions among multiple brain regions. The Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), a high-precision algorithm for nonlinear state and parameter estimation, has recently gained prominence in epilepsy research as it infers latent physiological parameters from electrophysiological signals to reveal the underlying seizure mec...

Brain signal irregularity may provide clues to understanding epileptic process - Researchers propose a new method to differentiate signals from the epileptic focus from those recorded in other parts of the brain without the presence of an epileptic seizure. This technique may help detect epilepsy-induced features from these signals much quicker than conventional analysis techniques.

Breakthrough tech enables seizure localization in minutes - New research introduces a novel network analysis technology that uses minimally invasive resting state electrophysiological recordings to localize seizure onset brain regions and predict seizure outcomes in just 10 minutes.

Antidepressant use during pregnancy not linked to epilepsy in children - A new study suggests that antidepressant use by mothers during the first trimester of pregnancy does not increase the chances of epilepsy and seizures in babies.