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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that the memory-forming stage of sleep could be key for understanding epileptic seizures. . | Credit: ...

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? - Whenever I mention that neurofeedback helped me regain my life after my multiple brain injuries — or that I’m now a neurofeedback provider — the first reaction is to ask me, what is neurofeedback? I’m ...

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 ...

What Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

Neurofeedback Therapists in San Antonio, TX - I am a holistic therapist specializing in trauma treatment, using evidence-based approaches like EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and the Safe and Sound Protocol. These therapies work with the mind, body, ...

Hemorrhagic Cholecystitis in an Elderly Patient With Fall Syndrome: A Case Report - Hemorrhagic cholecystitis is a rare, potentially fatal complication of acute cholecystitis that develops with or without gallstones. It tends to be diagnosed late because its clinical presentation overlaps with that of other acute abdominal conditions, and suspicion is often low, as it is first a ruling-out diagnosis due to its low incidence. We present the case of an 81-year-old man with epile...

Clinical, Immunological, and Neuroimaging Characteristics and Outcome Profile of Neurocysticercosis in Children at a Neurology Department in Antananarivo: A Retrospective Observational Study - CONCLUSION: Pediatric NCC requires an innovative approach to diagnosis and therapeutic management.

Epilepsy Is Part of the CNS Phenotype in Classic Infantile Pompe Disease - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Enzyme replacement therapy has not only significantly improved motor outcome and survival in patients with classic infantile Pompe disease, but also revealed previously unrecognized central nervous system (CNS) involvement. In this international study, involving patients from the Netherlands, Italy, Argentina, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan, we investigated w...

Neurologic complications of Evans syndrome - Evans syndrome is a rare autoimmune disorder characterised by concurrent or sequential autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and immune thrombocytopenia, often posing significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges due to its relapsing nature and variable response to treatment. We report a patient with severe Evans syndrome who developed status epilepticus in the setting of intracranial haemorrhage s...

A Drug Repurposing-Based Mechanistic study of ilepcimide against febrile seizures - Febrile seizures are the most common childhood paroxysmal neurological disorder. Although ilepcimide is used for pediatric epilepsy, its efficacy in febrile seizures remains unknown. Here, we investigated the effects and mechanisms of ilepcimide in a juvenile mouse model of febrile seizures using network pharmacology, molecular docking, brain slice electrophysiology and patch-clamp recordings o...

"They're intertwined really they make each other worse": An interpretative phenomenological analysis of living with epilepsy in the context of homelessness - People experiencing homelessness, or "unhoused people", are eight times more likely to have a diagnosis of epilepsy compared to the general population. However, little is known about how epilepsy is experienced and understood within the context of homelessness. This study used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to explore the lived experience of epilepsy among six unhoused men in Ireland....

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.