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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seizure or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A sudden episode of shaking, confusion, or loss of awareness can be frightening - but does it mean epilepsy? Understanding the difference between a seizure and epilepsy is crucial for timely treatment ...

NEURELIS PRESENTS STUDIES ON SEIZURE CLUSTERS AT THE AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING - SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurelis, Inc., today announced details of its presentations at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting to be held December 6-10 in Los Angeles. The ...

Seizure first aid, epilepsy awareness bill signed into law - Legislation aimed at helping South Carolina workplaces respond appropriately when someone experiences a seizure has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.

The brain has its own thermostat. A study shows epilepsy may interfere with it - Doctors have long known that changes in body temperature can affect seizure activity. Fever can trigger seizures in some young children, while in rare forms of epilepsy, bathing in hot water can bring ...

Does Levetiracetam Improve Seizure Outcomes in Pediatric Epilepsy? - Although levetiracetam was associated with improved seizure outcomes compared with placebo in pediatric epilepsy, it did not demonstrate superior efficacy when compared with established active ...

Neurofeedback Therapists in San Antonio, TX - I use neuroscience-informed individual psychotherapy, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, IFS and Ego State Therapy, DBT, trauma-focused CBT, attachment-based therapy, motivational interviewing, ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - Neurofeedback is a noninvasive form of therapy that trains the brain to improve various neurological issues, including chronic pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD. Using EEG to monitor real-time ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention - You sit in a chair, facing a computer screen, while a clinician sticks electrodes to your scalp with a viscous goop that takes days to wash out of your hair. Wires from the sensors connect to a ...

Gastrodia elata Blume and Acorus tatarinowii Schott mixtures alleviate pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures in mice: association with NLRP3 inflammasome signaling changes - CONCLUSION: GEAT exerts multi-target effects against epilepsy, associated with synergistic regulation of glial activation, neuroinflammation, and apoptosis involving the NLRP3/caspase-1/IL-1β pathway, thereby providing a robust theoretical and experimental foundation for its clinical translation.

Seizure Provocation Following Low-Energy Burst Dorsal Root Spinal Cord Stimulator Implant in Patient with Chronic Back Pain and Pre-Existing Seizures: Case Report - CONCLUSIONS: This case highlights the unusual and poorly understood complication of SCS-induced seizures, emphasizing the need for caution when considering neuromodulation therapy in patients with a known seizure history.

Real-world evaluation of capillary microsampling for drug monitoring of anti-seizure medications - OBJECTIVE: Capillary microsampling offers a minimally invasive alternative to venipuncture for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of anti-seizure medications (ASMs). We evaluated the feasibility and reliability of volumetric absorptive microsampling (VAMS) and quantitative dried blood spot (qDBS) devices for ambulatory self-collection and at-home use in persons with epilepsy (PwE).

Phenotypic and transcriptomic characterization of biallelic RNU2-2 developmental and epileptic encephalopathy - OBJECTIVE: A significant proportion of individuals with suspected genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) remain unsolved following whole genome sequencing (WGS). Here we describe biallelic RNU2-2 variants causing a recently reported, severe, recessive DEE.

Clinical Response and Tolerability of Brivaracetam in Pediatric Epilepsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to synthesize evidence on the safety and efficacy of brivaracetam (BRV) usage in pediatric epilepsy. The primary outcome of our study was to assess the endurability of BRV in a population of children (age ≤18 years) with epilepsy, which was measured by the retention rate. The responder rate, rate of seizure freedom, rate of adverse effects, and rate...

Posttraumatic stress in newly diagnosed epilepsy: associations with early maladaptive schemas, anxiety, and quality of life in a 6-month prospective study - CONCLUSION: PTS symptoms in newly diagnosed epilepsy are closely associated with anxiety, early maladaptive cognitive schemas, and impaired quality of life. These findings emphasize the importance of incorporating trauma-informed psychiatric assessment and early psychological interventions into routine epilepsy care, in addition to seizure management.

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.