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Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bellevue Therapist Beverly Brashen, Ph.D. Offers Specialized Insomnia Treatment and Neurofeedback Therapy for Trauma and Chronic Sleep Disorders Across Greater Seattle - The integrative therapist at beverlybrashen.com combines neurofeedback, CBT-I, somatic therapy, trauma-informed care, ...

I Tried Direct Neurofeedback and the Results Surprised Me - Transhumanism—the movement of using science and technology to improve the human being—covers many different fields of research. There are exoskeleton suits to help the disabled; there are stem cell ...

Right amygdala ablation reduces maladaptive negative interpretation bias and symptoms in a patient with post-traumatic stress disorder - Negative interpretation bias - the tendency to perceive ambiguous stimuli as threatening - is a core cognitive distortion underlying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The amygdala, a key structure in fear processing, is implicated in PTSD-related hypervigilance and heightened fear perception, yet direct causal evidence linking amygdala function to negative interpretation bias remains limit...

Cortistatin neurons in the prelimbic cortex regulate seizure susceptibility in female mice via BDNF-TrkB signaling - The risk of developing psychiatric disorders, particularly stress-related disorders such as major depressive disorder (MDD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is increased three fold in patients with epilepsy. While this increased risk may arise as a consequence of living with epilepsy, shared neurobiological mechanisms, particularly dysregulation of GABAergic signaling, may also contri...

Lipoxygenase (LOX) signaling in epilepsy: Pathophysiology and therapeutic prospects - Epilepsy is a devastating neurological disorder affecting about 1-2% of the global population and is characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures that can severely impair quality of life. Despite the availability of antiseizure medications, nearly one-third of individuals with epilepsy continue to experience drug-resistant seizures, underscoring the need for novel therapeutic strategies. Gro...

The seizure embedding map: A spatio-temporal transformer for comparing patients by ictal intracranial EEG features at scale - Planning invasive treatment for medication-resistant epilepsy depends on interpreting intracranial EEG (iEEG) recordings to identify seizure onset patterns and locations. Clinicians currently rely on multimodal data, experience and literature to recommend treatments. Referencing a new patient's seizures against past cases remains subjective because implant strategies, electrode placements, and ...

Healthcare resource utilization and persistence in children and adults with Dravet syndrome receiving fenfluramine: a retrospective analysis using United States claims data - CONCLUSIONS: High fenfluramine treatment persistence indicates that children and adults with DS tend to continue with fenfluramine treatment, regardless of their concomitant ASM regimen. Significant reductions in HCRU in were observed in individuals receiving fenfluramine ≥6 months; however, further research is warranted in this area.

Early Electroencephalographic Changes After Ketogenic Diet Initiation Are Associated With Clinical Response in Pediatric Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - CONCLUSION: Early reduction in IED index on routine sleep EEG is associated with favorable clinical response to the ketogenic diet. Routine EEG assessment may offer supportive electrophysiological information during early follow-up of KD therapy in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy.

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.