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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 ...
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Neurofeedback for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...
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 ...
Brain training with neurofeedback shows enhanced benefits on cognitive functions - Neurofeedback has been used for decades to reinforce healthy brain functions. With previous research reporting a positive correlation between enhanced brain activities during brain training and ...
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 for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...
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 ...
Brain training with neurofeedback shows enhanced benefits on cognitive functions - Neurofeedback has been used for decades to reinforce healthy brain functions. With previous research reporting a positive correlation between enhanced brain activities during brain training and ...
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Seizure detection devices in outpatient epilepsy care: High demand, low use, and the need for specialized counseling -
OBJECTIVE: To determine real-world uptake of seizure detection devices (SDDs), quantify patient demand, and identify factors associated with their adoption in routine outpatient epilepsy care.
Bridging computational and clinical strategies for presurgical identification of epileptogenic networks - OBJECTIVE: About one third of epilepsy patients are drug-resistant. Resective epilepsy surgery remains a key treatment option but depends critically on accurate identification of the seizure onset zone (SOZ), which is still guided mainly by subjective visual inspection of electrophysiological signals. Network-based metrics derived from intracranial EEG have recently shown promise for SOZ identi...
The effectiveness of adding on or switching antiseizure medications after the first fails to control focal epilepsy: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials - Focal epilepsy constitutes 60-70% of epilepsy, and up to half of patients do not achieve seizure freedom with their first antiseizure medication (ASM). When the first ASM fails, evidence guiding whether to switch or add-on another ASM and which ASMs to use is limited. This review synthesized evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the comparative effectiveness of subsequent ASMs af...
Chorea-athetosis-like hyperkinetic seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy: insights from stereo-EEG in three patients - CONCLUSIONS: Chorea-athetosis-like hyperkinetic seizures in TLE appear to be cortically driven, with seizures arising from temporal cortex and propagating through a temporo-insular-orbitofrontal network before recruiting basal ganglia-thalamic structures. These findings highlight the importance of adequate SEEG coverage of temporal and insular regions to avoid misdiagnosis and to optimize presu...
Age-dependent axonal dysfunctions and altered sharp-wave ripple oscillations in Scn1a +/- mice - Mice with Scn1a haploinsufficiency replicate symptoms of Dravet syndrome (DS), a rare childhood disease characterized by febrile seizures at an early age. As adults, patients with DS suffer from epilepsy, motor dysfunction, psychological disorders, and cognitive disabilities. Patients with DS carry loss-of-function variants in the SCN1A gene, which encodes the voltage-gated sodium channel subun...
A novel mutation in SETD1A is associated with early-onset epilepsy-a rare case report - SET Domain Containing 1A (SETD1A) is a histone H3K4 methyltransferase implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders. Pathogenic variants in this gene are associated with schizophrenia, intellectual disability, and epilepsy. Here, whole-exome sequencing and Sanger sequencing were performed on a 4-year-old Chinese girl with early-onset epilepsy and her unaffected parents. A novel de novo heterozygou...
Bridging computational and clinical strategies for presurgical identification of epileptogenic networks - OBJECTIVE: About one third of epilepsy patients are drug-resistant. Resective epilepsy surgery remains a key treatment option but depends critically on accurate identification of the seizure onset zone (SOZ), which is still guided mainly by subjective visual inspection of electrophysiological signals. Network-based metrics derived from intracranial EEG have recently shown promise for SOZ identi...
The effectiveness of adding on or switching antiseizure medications after the first fails to control focal epilepsy: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials - Focal epilepsy constitutes 60-70% of epilepsy, and up to half of patients do not achieve seizure freedom with their first antiseizure medication (ASM). When the first ASM fails, evidence guiding whether to switch or add-on another ASM and which ASMs to use is limited. This review synthesized evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the comparative effectiveness of subsequent ASMs af...
Chorea-athetosis-like hyperkinetic seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy: insights from stereo-EEG in three patients - CONCLUSIONS: Chorea-athetosis-like hyperkinetic seizures in TLE appear to be cortically driven, with seizures arising from temporal cortex and propagating through a temporo-insular-orbitofrontal network before recruiting basal ganglia-thalamic structures. These findings highlight the importance of adequate SEEG coverage of temporal and insular regions to avoid misdiagnosis and to optimize presu...
Age-dependent axonal dysfunctions and altered sharp-wave ripple oscillations in Scn1a +/- mice - Mice with Scn1a haploinsufficiency replicate symptoms of Dravet syndrome (DS), a rare childhood disease characterized by febrile seizures at an early age. As adults, patients with DS suffer from epilepsy, motor dysfunction, psychological disorders, and cognitive disabilities. Patients with DS carry loss-of-function variants in the SCN1A gene, which encodes the voltage-gated sodium channel subun...
A novel mutation in SETD1A is associated with early-onset epilepsy-a rare case report - SET Domain Containing 1A (SETD1A) is a histone H3K4 methyltransferase implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders. Pathogenic variants in this gene are associated with schizophrenia, intellectual disability, and epilepsy. Here, whole-exome sequencing and Sanger sequencing were performed on a 4-year-old Chinese girl with early-onset epilepsy and her unaffected parents. A novel de novo heterozygou...
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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.
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.