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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 ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

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 ...

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 ...

First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model expedites access to specialists after a first seizure. The mean time between the referral and 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: ...

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 ...

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? - 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 ...

Can Monitoring Brain Waves Boost Mental Health? - Neurofeedback has promised a mental health revolution for decades. But is it effective? Credit...Tony Luong for The New York Times Supported by By David Dodge Twice a week, Stephanie, a 37-year-old ...

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 ...

Novel neurofeedback technique enhances awareness of mind-wandering - Everyone knows the feeling. You are trying to concentrate on driving or studying, or paying attention in a boring meeting, but suddenly, you realize that you are thinking about something irrelevant to ...

Genetic landscape of pediatric seizures in Southeast China: identification of a novel GLI3 frameshift variant through whole-exome sequencing - CONCLUSION: Whole-exome sequencing identified clinically relevant genetic findings in a subset of Southeast Chinese children with seizure disorders. The novel GLI3 frameshift variant may suggest an expansion of the GLI3-associated phenotypic spectrum, but further segregation, functional validation, and larger cohort studies are needed. The high proportion of variants of uncertain significance h...

Pharmacokinetics of Loading Dose Vigabatrin Administered via Enteral Tube in Participants With Post-Anoxic Status Epilepticus - CONCLUSIONS: This pioneer vigabatrin PK study in critically ill participants with PASE demonstrated absorption regardless of challenges such as enteral delivery type, co-administration of gastric pH modulators, vasopressors, and anesthetics. Notably, prolonged elimination half-lives and increased exposures were observed.

Sodium homeostatic reserve in people with epilepsy receiving glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists - No abstract

Repurposing Prasugrel: A Neuroprotective Strategy Against Pentylenetetrazol-Induced Kindling in Mice - CONCLUSION: The current study suggests that prasugrel exhibits neuroprotective effects in the PTZ-induced kindling model, via modulating the P(2)Y(12) receptor mediated neuroinflammatory and apoptotic pathways. These findings support the repurposing of prasugrel as a promising therapeutic approach for the treatment of epilepsy.

Dynamical network models predict spectral response to single-pulse electrical stimulation - OBJECTIVE: Drug-resistant epilepsy can be treated by surgically removing the seizure onset zone (SOZ), but localizing this zone is challenging because no clinically accepted biomarker of the SOZ exists. A novel computational biomarker, neural resonance, utilizes control theory to model the brain's response to stimulation. However, model validation is limited, and it is necessary to further cont...

Time-dependent retention and discontinuation of eslicarbazepine acetate treatment in real-world focal epilepsy: The first three months as a key period - CONCLUSION: The first 3 months are a key period for optimizing treatment retention and minimizing adverse events. Careful consideration of concomitant ASM is required, as concomitant ASM may be associated with lower retention and more adverse events, particularly sodium channel blockers.

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.