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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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Adherence to anti-seizure medications among persons living with epilepsy attending a community- based epilepsy clinic in Buikwe and Mukono Districts-Uganda: A mixed methods study - CONCLUSION: This study revealed that about two- thirds of people living with epilepsy were adherent to anti-seizure medications. There is a need to implement strategies such as incorporating a medication adherence tool into routine patient care to improve adherence in our settings.

Temperature homeostasis disruption and hypothalamic alterations in experimental drug-resistant epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: Elevated body temperature may increase seizure risk, yet the relationship between thermoregulation and seizures, as well as the underlying mechanisms, remains poorly understood. We investigated whether thermoregulatory control is altered in experimental temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), as such impairment could reduce the ability of affected individuals to adapt to environmental temperat...

Role of antiseizure medication in postoperative late seizure and survival among patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma: A multicenter retrospective study - CONCLUSIONS: LEV and PER after glioblastoma surgery were associated with a reduced risk of late seizure compared with LCM or no medication. LEV or PER may be considered as postoperative ASMs to optimize seizure control and potentially help preserve patients' QOL.

Hemispheric asymmetries in rodent models of neurological diseases: a systematic review - INTRODUCTION: Hemispheric asymmetries are a core organizational principle of the vertebrate brain, but they are still not fully integrated into the study of preclinical models of neurological disease. Although many rodent models naturally include lateralization through unilateral interventions, hemispheric differences are not consistently examined or systematically reported.

Pediatric occipital lobe epilepsy: A modern review of etiological classification, management, and outcomes - Pediatric occipital lobe epilepsy (OLE) comprises syndromes with seizures originating from the posterior cerebral cortex. Previously "benign", recent International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) updates reclassified these as self-limited or structural focal epilepsies, reflecting their complex causes and morbidity potential. The 2017 ILAE guidelines shifted from syndromic recognition to an etio...

Successful Treatment of Refractory Landau-Kleffner Syndrome with Memantine in a Child with GRIN2A Gain-of-Function Variant - Landau-Kleffner syndrome and related epilepsy-aphasia spectrum disorders are characterized by childhood-onset language regression, sleep-activated epileptiform activity, and frequently refractory seizures. This case report describe a boy with normal early development who developed progressive aphasia and non-motor seizures around age three, with electroencephalographic findings consistent with ...

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.