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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 ...

Circulating miRNAs may flag who develops epilepsy after a first seizure - A small exploratory study found 15 cell-free miRNAs in plasma that differed between patients whose first unprovoked seizure remained isolated and those who had a second seizure within two years.

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 ...

Can Neurofeedback Effectively Treat ADHD? - Neurofeedback training is an alternative therapy that uses real-time EEG data to help patients train their brains to improve focus, impulse control, and executive function. Since the 1970s, patients ...

Putting is not as simple as 'train your brain and it will go in.' A study summarizing 12 RCTs and 424 people - Golf and brain science are a compatible topic. Concentration Pressure Movement automation Attention Putting, in particular, requires precise control rather than large physical force, so neurofeedback ...

Elite athletes enhance their performance with 'neurofeedback'—and you can get a device for $99 - When you think of the training tools that professional athletes have at their disposal, high-tech sports equipment and state-of-the-art athletic facilities come to mind. But training for peak ...

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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 ...

Do preclinical seizure models predict success or failure in anti-seizure drug development? A retrospective analysis of 89 compounds with divergent clinical outcomes for epilepsy - Anti-seizure medication (ASM) discovery remains a major challenge despite over 30 commercially available options. One persistent obstacle for any promising candidate compound to successfully move from preclinical study to clinical approval has been the ambiguity in preclinical model selection. Which models are most predictive of clinical response and failure? For decades, the maximal electrosho...

Sphenoidal Meningioma with Focal Seizures Masquerading as Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome in HIV Patient - Seizures in adults with HIV can result from structural lesions, opportunistic infections, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) or medication effects, making accurate diagnosis challenging. We report a 47-year-old woman with HIV who developed recurrent focal-onset seizures evolving to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures beginning approximately 4 weeks after initiation of antiretroviral...

The challenge of drug-related seizures: is identifying the cause only part of the battle? - No abstract

Case Report: Longitudinal evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer's disease core biomarkers in a case of refractory late-onset epilepsy of unknown etiology - In recent years, late-onset epilepsy of unknown etiology (LOEU) has increasingly been recognized as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other forms of dementia. We present a case of refractory LOEU with progressive cognitive decline, longitudinally evaluated over more than 20 years using neuropsychological tests, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) AD core biomarkers (Aβ42/40 ratio, p-tau), el...

Seizure-Related Burn Injuries in People with Epilepsy: A Narrative Review with Emphasis on Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Epilepsy is a neurological disease characterized by an enduring predisposition to recurrent seizures. Approximately 1% of the global population is affected by epilepsy, making it the second most common neurological disease after stroke. Individuals with epilepsy are at heightened risk for both seizure-related and unrelated injuries, including soft tissue injuries, head injury, dental and tongue...

"A Father and Daughter Presentation of Autosomal Dominant Sleep-Related Hypermotor Epilepsy Via a DEPDC5 Deletion in Exon 28" - Sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy (SHE) is a form of focal epilepsy that can be caused by a pathogenic autosomal-dominant DEP domain containing Protein 5 (DEPDC5) variant. Given its variable clinical presentation and etiology, SHE can be challenging to diagnose and treat effectively. This case describes a father-daughter pair who experienced sleep-related seizures with similar semiologies and w...

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.