Epilepsy News

Can ChatGPT replace your doctor? Why epilepsy patients should never alter medication on AI advice - AI can help patients understand medical terms and prepare questions for clinicians, but it should not replace professional advice on changing prescribed treatment.

Woman, 31, Dies After ChatGPT Allegedly Told Her to Change Dosing Of Seizure Medication - OpenAI faces a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging ChatGPT guided a user to taper seizure meds and hide the changes from her doctors.

Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT advice to cut daughter’s seizure drug - A wrongful death suit alleges GPT-4o coached Bowen Wan, 31, to taper off her epilepsy medication before she died in February.

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 ...

Can Neurofeedback Effectively Treat ADHD? - Neurofeedback training is an alternative therapy that uses real-time EEG data to help patients train their brains to improve focus, impulse control, and executive function. Since the 1970s, patients ...

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Elite athletes enhance their performance with 'neurofeedback'—and you can get a device for $99 - When you think of the training tools that professional athletes have at their disposal, high-tech sports equipment and state-of-the-art athletic facilities come to mind. But training for peak ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robust Epilepsy Diagnosis in Neonates Via Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning and Balanced Test-Time Training - Timely diagnosis of neonatal epilepsy is critical for mitigating long-term neurodevelopmental deficits. However, while neonates exhibiting extensive seizure burden are readily identified, accurately diagnosing epileptic infants with sparse or no overt seizure onset during monitoring remains a formidable challenge using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals alone. Current automated systems predomin...

Early seizure risk after stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases: a multicenter analysis of LINAC- and gamma knife-treated cohorts - CONCLUSIONS: Early post-SRS seizures are an uncommon complication in patients without a history of epilepsy. Seizure risk appears mainly driven by intracranial disease burden, reflected by total irradiated volume and number of lesions at diagnosis, whereas technical SRS parameters do not seem to affect seizure incidence.

Serotonergic Modulation in Absence Epilepsy: The Role of Thalamo-cortical Networks and 5-hydroxytryptamine Receptors - Absence epilepsy is characterized by brief nonconvulsive seizures and generalized spike-and-wave discharges (SWDs) generated within distributed cortico-thalamo-cortical networks. Although the roles of T-type calcium channels, GABAergic inhibition, and network synchronization are well established, serotonergic modulation of these circuits remains incompletely defined. This review integrates evid...

Robustness of MEG source imaging in pediatric patients with surgical cavities: A case series - CONCLUSIONS: In this pediatric epilepsy case series with surgical cavities, MSI showed broad agreement across simple spherical and advanced realistic head models. These findings did not establish a consistent localization advantage of one head model over another. However, larger prospective cohorts with independent ground truths are needed to validate and generalize these findings across cavity...

A representation-level wavelet-EMD fusion framework for spectral analysis and detection of epileptiform patterns in pediatric EEG: computational validation with a roadmap for external benchmarking - CONCLUSION: Representation-level wavelet-EMD fusion provides an interpretable and transparent computational framework for analyzing non-stationary pediatric epileptiform EEG whose advantage over classical time-frequency baselines persists, at feasibility scale, on real CHB-MIT recordings and remains competitive with deep-learning baselines. Because the primary evaluation is synthetic and the ex...

Beyond seizures: the hidden burden of developmental epileptic encephalopathies - Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a group of severe childhood-onset disorders characterized by drug-resistant epilepsy and a broad spectrum of neurodevelopmental, behavioral, psychiatric, and systemic manifestations. Although seizure control has traditionally been the primary therapeutic goal, growing evidence indicates that non-seizure manifestations often represent the m...

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.