Epilepsy News

Epilepsy awareness in the workplace: training and safety tips - More than 35,000 Long Islanders live with epilepsy. Experts urge businesses to provide seizure training, safety plans, and awareness to protect employees and customers.

Health Beat: Treating epilepsy - Nearly three million Americans live with epilepsy. And for one-third of them, anti-seizure medications don't work.

Many people have seizures. Here's why that doesn’t always mean epilepsy. - One of the most common causes of epilepsy is a structural brain abnormality. “Epilepsy can result from structural issues in the brain, such as brain tumors, brain injuries, brain infections or ...

Orcutt Driver with Seizure Disorder Must Stand Trial for Fatal Crash, Judge Rules - A Santa Maria Valley man whose driver’s license had been suspended several times due to his seizure disorder must stand trial on a second-degree murder ...

Epileptic seizure alert wearable set to launch in Europe in 2026 - Episera, which is intended for homecare and ambulatory use, is the first digital health tool for real-time early seizure detection, according to the companies. The device is classified as a Class IIa ...

Epilepsy myths you must stop believing: Expert busts the biggest misconceptions - Epilepsy is still surrounded by harmful myths and stigma. This expert-backed guide breaks down the most common misconceptions, explains what seizures really are, how epilepsy is diagnosed, what ...

National Epilepsy Day 2025: The seizure myths putting lakhs of Indians at risk, says neurologist - Epilepsy remains widely misunderstood in India, with 2–5 lakh new cases yearly. Neurologist warns that myths delay treatment and stress that proper diagnosis, medication and awareness can help most ...

Football fan champions epilepsy support - A football fan has teamed up with a leading charity to raise awareness about epilepsy. Ellie Thornton, from North Newington, Oxfordshire, was diagnosed with the condition aged 14 and has helped start ...

Planning a pregnancy with epilepsy? Read this before changing your medication - Pregnancy with epilepsy is manageable, with most women having healthy babies. Expert Dr. Meena Muthiah emphasizes that staying on anti-seizure medication, with proper guidance, is crucial for both ...

How Do Cavernous Malformations Affect Seizure Risk? - The risk for a first-ever epileptic seizure after cerebral cavernous malformations is low, with younger age and initial presentation with epileptic seizures being significant risk factors.

Mindmachines.com Advances Simplified Neurofeedback Technology with Third-Generation ROSHIwave Device - Mindmachines.com has introduced the third generation of its ROSHIwave IN-SIGHT Mind Machine, incorporating refined protocols and enhanced navigation features designed to make neurofeedback more ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his hand, the kind you could use to tote a dirty bomb. Once inside my living room, he cracked open the case and removed a laptop, a ...

Neurofeedback Therapists in Bend, OR - Insurance companies pressure therapists to give patients less time than they need. I give my patients 50% to 100% more time at no additional charge if they need it. Patients get better results. I feel ...

Neurofeedback Therapists in Connecticut - Currently working on certification in Neurofeedback utilizing brainmapping and training. As we move through life we are challenged with issues related to ourselves, mental illness, family, marriage, ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - When I was a child, my mother suffered from horrible migraine headaches. Sometimes they were so bad that she’d have to close herself up in her bedroom for days with the shades drawn. Traditional pain ...

Late-onset unexplained epilepsy as a risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia: Protocol for a multi-center prospective longitudinal observational study (ELUCID) - OBJECTIVE: Late-onset unexplained epilepsy (LoUE), defined as epilepsy onset after age 55 without an obvious cause, is an important risk factor for dementia. Studies have shown that 10%-25% of individuals with LoUE develop dementia within 3-4 years following their first seizure. However, the mechanisms underlying progression from LoUE to dementia remain poorly understood. The goals of the ELUCI...

Intranasal Liposomal Trimetazidine Nanocarriers Modulate Neuroinflammation and Neurotransmission via the HMGB1/TLR4/NF-kappaB Pathway in an Experimental Epilepsy Model - Frequent convulsions are a hallmark of the neurological disorder "epilepsy," which calls for long-term anticonvulsant medication treatment. Traditional antiseizure medications primarily modulate neurotransmitter systems or ion channels but do not address the underlying neuroinflammation and metabolic dysfunctions that contribute to epileptogenesis. Trimetazidine (TMZ), a cytoprotective agent, h...

Abnormal glycosylation changes in brain tissue of kainic acid-induced epileptic rats - Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. Despite significant progress in epilepsy research, about 30% of patients continue to experience uncontrolled seizures and clear diagnostic criteria remain elusive. Abnormal glycosylation contributes to various neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. However, it is unclear w...

Quantitative susceptibility mapping at 7T as a biomarker of post- and interictal extravascular iron in patients with focal epilepsy - BACKGROUND: Iron deposition in the brain has been associated with epilepsy, but its anatomical distribution and its temporal association to seizures remain unclear. Here, we investigate brain iron in individuals with focal epilepsy using interictal and postictal quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) at 7 T MRI and explore its functional relevance.

Hippocampal, fornix, and mammillary body atrophy in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis - This study investigates structural changes in the hippocampus, fornix, and mammillary bodies in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS), examining their relationship to clinical characteristics and association with memory performance. We conducted a retrospective study involving 104 patients with unilateral MTS and 47 age-matched healthy controls. Automatic segmentation of MRI scans was p...

Intraoperative Ultrasound-Assisted 3D-Electrocorticography for resection of type II focal cortical dysplasias - CONCLUSIONS: IoUS-assisted 3D-ECoG is a safe procedure for intraoperative delineation of FCDII, supporting complete resection.

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.