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EMDR and Neurofeedback Helped Me Become a Better Founder - After that session, my confidence hit a low; I wondered if my company would be better off without me. My team didn’t realize that besides managing the major growth of the company, over the last eight ...

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 ...

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 ...

Implantation of Deep Brain Stimulator Through Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Cranioplasty - CONCLUSIONS: This case series highlights how PEEK cranioplasties can be drilled through for therapeutic procedures, such as DBS electrode implantation, without compromising their structure. These cases illustrate the versatility, safety, and adaptability of PEEK implants for additional necessary interventions.

Subtle Hippocampal Subfield Volumetric Alterations in Clinically Diagnosed MRI-Negative Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - CONCLUSION: These results imply that selective CA4-DG atrophy is a defining characteristic of the MRI-negative TLE phenotype, thereby corroborating the "dentate gate" failure hypothesis. Quantitative volumetry provides a crucial diagnostic tool in settings with limited resources, where advanced techniques like 3-T MRI or invasive monitoring are not accessible. This objective structural marker, ...

Microglial pathological synaptic pruning in epilepsy: pathophysiology and therapeutic potential - Epilepsy affects around 70 million people worldwide, and roughly one-third of them respond poorly to standard antiepileptic drugs. Current treatments are directed almost entirely at neurons, leaving the contribution of non-neuronal cells largely unaddressed. Microglia, the resident immune cells of the central nervous system, both support neuronal survival and shape neural circuits by pruning sy...

Decades of Epilepsy Surgery Follow-up: What's Known and What's Not? - No abstract

A comprehensive review of deep brain stimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy - CONCLUSION: DBS represents an important therapeutic option for DRE, expanding the scope of neuromodulation beyond traditional surgical approaches. Optimal outcomes depend on individualized target selection based on seizure semiology, network characteristics, and anatomical considerations. As clinical experience and technological advances continue to evolve, further studies are required to refin...

Vagus nerve stimulation as an add-on therapy in patients with epilepsy: a prospective, multicenter, real-world study in China - CONCLUSIONS: VNS is an effective and safe adjunctive treatment for epilepsy, reducing seizure frequency and significantly improving quality of life, with a cumulative effect over time.

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.