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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 ...

Opinion | If a student had a seizure in the classroom, would your school be prepared? - "A parent whose child has epilepsy shouldn’t have to send an email in August asking whether anyone in the building knows what to do," high schooler Rishik Kondadadi writes.

Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy, so it is a relatively common diagnosis. In fact, it is the fourth ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Potential neuroprotective and anticonvulsant effects of Ganoderma lucidum ethanol extract and its impact on affective comorbidities associated with pentylenetetrazol kindling model of epilepsy: beh... - Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that is strongly influenced by oxidative stress and neuronal death, two major pathophysiological factors. According to various recent studies, Ganoderma lucidum extract (GLE) may have antioxidant properties. However, there is little evidence to support its effectiveness in treating epilepsy. Here, we examined the neuroprotective qualities of GLE (300 ...

Current Paradigms in Understanding Neuron Fluctuations, Factors, Regulation, Pathophysiology of Epilepsy: Advancements in Diagnosis, Treatment and Management-An Update - Epilepsy has been attributed to be a most common universal brain neurological disorder afflicting more than 50 million people globally. Neural network is known to be hyperexcitable and hypersynchronous which ultimately result in seizures. Bibliographic databases for peer reviewed journals were searched for key words like epilepsy, seizures, neurological disorders, gut microbiota brain axis, ant...

Seizure worsening and sodium-channel blockers in HCN1-related epilepsies: A case series - No abstract

Fenfluramine in refractory SCN1A-related 'genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus' - A child with SCN1A-related 'genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus' (GEFS+) presented in infancy with recurrent febrile and afebrile seizures, frequently progressing to generalised tonic-clonic status epilepticus. Despite a severe seizure burden and typical Dravet-like triggers, neurodevelopment remained entirely normal and a familial SCN1A variant supported a diagnosis of GEFS+. The varia...

Rapid hippocampal kindling of mice as a model of sudden unexpected death in temporal lobe epilepsy - Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the leading cause of seizure-related death in people with epilepsy. Yet, its mechanisms remain poorly understood. While most epilepsy syndromes have no known genetic component, animal SUDEP models are often of rare monogenetic mutations. Here, we present a novel non-genetic mouse model of SUDEP, relevant to temporal lobe epilepsy, the most common s...

Evaluation of EEG findings in pediatric patients presenting with dizziness - CONCLUSION: While the prevalence of epilepsy in the general population is approximately 1%, the rate of epileptiform activity among children presenting with dizziness was found to be 11.6% in this study. This suggests that dizziness may be a manifestation of underlying epileptic activity in certain cases. Therefore, EEG may provide significant diagnostic and therapeutic value in the evaluation ...

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.