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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New tools map seizures in the brain, improve epilepsy treatment -
Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that part ...
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 ...
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Focal Hippocampal Onset and its Effect on Surgical Outcomes: A Case Report and Case Series -
In mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, resection or ablation-typically of anterior temporal structures-is highly successful in achieving seizure freedom. However, in a substantial proportion of patients, seizures recur for unclear reasons. Invasive hippocampal recordings suggest that, in some patients, hippocampal seizures are highly focal, often restricted to the anterior or posterior hippocampus. ...
Epilepsy-Dyskinesia Syndromes: The Venn Diagram of Genetic Epilepsy and Movement Disorders -
Epilepsy-dyskinesia syndromes cover a broad spectrum of neurogenetic disorders defined by the co-occurrence of epileptic and movement disorder phenotypes. Advances in next-generation sequencing have demonstrated more than 100 causative genes converging on shared molecular pathways regulating neuronal excitability, synaptic transmission, and neurodevelopment. Despite their clinical relevance, mo...
Flumazenil challenge reveals a sedation-masked electrographic seizure in post resuscitation encephalopathy -
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Anaesthetic Management of a Patient with Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome Undergoing Robotic Thermocoagulative Hemispherotomy: A Case Report -
Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome (DDMS) is a rare neurological disorder characterized by cerebral hemiatrophy and compensatory calvarial changes, typically resulting from early-life cerebral insults. Patients may present with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), hemiparesis, and developmental delay. Due to its rarity and heterogeneous clinical presentation, diagnosis is often delayed or missed. We prese...
Safety and feasibility of oral zinc for patients with GNAO1-related disorders (ZINCGNAO1): an open-label, single-arm, single-centre, pilot trial in Germany -
BACKGROUND: GNAO1-related disorders (GNAO1-RD), caused by variants in GNAO1 encoding the Gαo protein, comprise a broad phenotypic spectrum including movement disorders (MD) and/or epilepsy and are typically associated with developmental delay and intellectual disability. Currently, only symptomatic treatments are available. Zinc can restore guanosine triphosphate hydrolysis and cellular interac...
Nanomedicine for epilepsy: Expanding beyond conventional drug targets -
Epilepsy remains a major neurological disorder characterized by unpredictable seizures and cumulative comorbidities that even endure with standard pharmacotherapy. Conventional antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are constrained by two interrelated barriers: limited brain penetration due to the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which necessitates high systemic dosing and peripheral toxicity, and a narrow mecha...
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