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Relationship Between Patient Activation and Quality of Life in HCN1-Related Epilepsy -
CONCLUSION: Increased patient activation is strongly associated with better HRQOL in HCN1-associated epilepsy. Interventions that enhance patient involvement, self-management, and disease awareness may improve psychosocial and clinical outcomes in these patients.
Depression in Epilepsy: Drug and Non-Drug Interventions Based on Multimodal Pathogenesis -
Depression is a common comorbidity in patients with epilepsy, significantly impacting their quality of life. However, the precise mechanisms underlying depression in epilepsy remain unclear. This review synthesizes the latest research on the pathogenesis of depression in epilepsy, focusing on abnormalities in monoamine neurotransmitters, neuroinflammation, HypothalamicPituitary-Adrenal (HPA) ax...
Efficacy of oxcarbazepine in treating focal epilepsy based on resting-state EEG functional connectivity and power spectral analyses -
CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that the response to oxcarbazepine in focal epilepsy is linked to differential regulation of slow-frequency brain networks. Persistent low-frequency synchronization reflects ongoing network instability and reduced treatment efficacy, whereas attenuation of pathological slow-wave activity indicates effective network stabilization. These band-limited spectral a...
Peripheral blood inflammatory biomarkers and response to vagus nerve stimulation in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy: A retrospective cohort study -
CONCLUSION: The efficacy of VNS in pediatric DRE is associated with systemic inflammatory dynamics. Postoperative changes in these inflammatory indices are associated with VNS treatment outcomes and may serve as a potential prognostic indicator for clinical response.
Carbonic anhydrase VII: Development of selective inhibitors and their pharmacological significance -
Human carbonic anhydrase VII (hCA VII) is a cytosolic zinc metalloenzyme largely expressed in the brain, where it plays an important role in regulating intracellular pH. hCA VII emerged as a valuable therapeutic target for epilepsy and other neurological disorders due to its involvement in neuronal excitability and seizure generation. We provide a comprehensive outline of the structural feature...
Diagnosis of Neurological Dysfunction from EEG Signals Using DuelQ-SeizureNet and Meta Black Ant Optimization for Epileptic Seizure Detection -
CONCLUSIONS: This proposed framework introduces a novel reinforcement learning assisted optimization approach in deep seizure detection architecture. It can operate with lower false detection rates (1.8%), higher area under the ROC curve (AUC) (0.995), and lower computational speed than the existing scheme, ensuring reliable real-time implementation.
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