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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 ...

Study: Epilepsy patients benefit from structured 'seizure action plans' - A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status. These ...

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 ...

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 ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy And How Does It Work? - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three-Year Mortality After First Acute Symptomatic Seizure: A Prospective, Population-Based Study in Ireland - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Acute symptomatic seizures (ASyS) are clinical seizures occurring at the time of a systemic insult or in close temporal association with a documented brain injury. We aimed to determine the 3-year mortality following a first ASyS.

Cross-material memory prediction: Influence of preoperative visual memory on postoperative verbal memory change after left anterior temporal lobe resection in people with epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: Left anterior temporal lobe resection (TLR) in people with epilepsy is associated with a high risk of postoperative verbal memory decline. Whereas substantial evidence supports the role of preoperative verbal memory in predicting postoperative verbal memory change, the potential contribution of preoperative visual memory has been rarely investigated.

Comorbidity spectrum in children and youth with epilepsy based on a validated and classified population-based childhood epilepsy cohort - OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to describe the occurrence and distribution of medical, neurological, neurodevelopmental, and psychiatric comorbidities in children and youth with epilepsy (CYE) and risk factors of such conditions.

β-Hydroxybutyrate reduces neuronal excitability via GIRK channels - OBJECTIVE: The ketogenic diet is used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy, yet the molecular mechanisms coupling metabolic state to seizure suppression remain understudied. β-Hydroxybutyrate (β-HB), a principal ketone body, exerts antiseizure effects, yet its downstream ionic mechanisms remain unclear.

The Five Sign: A hand posture suggesting insulo-opercular involvement in focal seizures - OBJECTIVE: The Five Sign is a previously underrecognized ictal hand posture characterized by full extension and spreading of the fingers. We aimed to determine its localizing value and underlying network basis in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy.

Uncovering Individual Language Vulnerability in Epilepsy Through Functional Connectivity Laterality - CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest an individual vulnerability of language networks to seizure burden, although this uncorrected, exploratory finding requires replication in larger, independent samples. Incorporating functional connectivity measures into presurgical clinical fMRI analysis may enhance our ability to predict and protect language function in patients with TLE by prioritizing further...

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.