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Seizure action plans: Management and educational tools in epilepsy care - Historically, seizure action plans have focused on certain high-risk groups—such as people with drug-resistant epilepsy and people with a history of status epilepticus or seizure clusters. Neurology ...

Seizure action plans: More than management tools for epilepsy - Newswise — Historically, seizure action plans have focused on certain high-risk groups — such as people with drug-resistant epilepsy and people with a history of status epilepticus or seizure clusters ...

Using Seizure-Risk Forecasts to ID Best Time for Epilepsy Monitoring - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― Scheduling video-electroencephalography (vEEG) monitoring on the basis of personalized seizure risk forecasts may improve diagnostic accuracy, emerging research suggests. In a ...

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Freedom Neurofeedback Services Shares Free Tools for Planning Home Neurofeedback Rentals - Printable questions, device comparisons and a household calendar help readers organize the practical details of a ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy And How Does It Work? - Ashwini Nadkarni, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Interim Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women ...

What Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

Novel neurofeedback technique enhances awareness of mind-wandering - Everyone knows the feeling. You are trying to concentrate on driving or studying, or paying attention in a boring meeting, but suddenly, you realize that you are thinking about something irrelevant to ...

fNIRS-VFT is a complementary tool to (18)F-FDG PET in presurgical evaluation of drug-resistant epilepsy: an exploratory study - CONCLUSIONS: In this exploratory, descriptive analysis, interictal ^(18)F-FDG PET showed higher concordance with lateralization of surgical areas compared with fNIRS-VFT among patients with DRE. Nevertheless, fNIRS may provide complementary information for cases with inconclusive PET findings. Additionally, changes of task-based fNIRS connectivity may be correlated with postoperative verbal mem...

Interpretable dynamic adjacency graph attention network for epileptic seizure detection - To address the insufficient robustness of existing deep learning methods in modeling cross-channel dependencies in epileptic electroencephalogram (EEG) signals and the limited traceability of their decision-making rationale, this paper proposes an interpretable dynamic adjacency graph attention network (DA-GAT). The proposed model first extracts EEG features through a convolutional module, and ...

Severe maternal and neonatal hyponatraemia following excessive oral fluid intake during labour - No abstract

Pilot testing an epilepsy self-management and resilience smartphone application for adolescents and young adults in Uganda - CONCLUSION: The SMART App demonstrated feasibility and high user acceptability with a particularly strong uptake of its resilience tracking feature. By integrating epilepsy self-management with resilience building support, the app offers a promising approach to addressing symptoms of distress, social isolation, and stigma among people with epilepsy. Findings support targeted refinement of app c...

Assessment of caregiver knowledge and attitudes toward pediatric epilepsy during an epilepsy monitoring unit admission - CONCLUSIONS: Caregiver knowledge and overall attitude scores improved during a brief pediatric EMU admission. Because this was an uncontrolled observational study without a standardized educational intervention, the observed changes cannot be attributed specifically to routine education. Test-retest effects and language-related measurement differences are also possible. These findings support p...

Stroke mimics in the emergency department: Prevalence, etiologies, and clinical predictors in patients with suspected acute stroke - CONCLUSION: Stroke mimics accounted for 21.5% of suspected acute stroke presentations in the ED. Altered consciousness, seizure, vertigo, and fever were independently associated with stroke mimics, whereas limb weakness and speech disturbance favored confirmed stroke.

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.