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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 ...

Yoga shows promise for anxiety relief and seizure control in epilepsy, claims AIIMS study - The study found that yoga reduced the burden of epilepsy and improved the overall quality of life in epilepsy patients by reducing the perceived stigma.

Epilepsy: Understanding Seizures, Saving Lives, And Protecting Future Generations - Epilepsy is not a curse, not a mental illness, not contagious. It is a medical condition deserving compassion. Across societies, countless individuals living with epilepsy continue to endure fear, ...

FMCSA reviews 11 epilepsy waiver requests from commercial drivers - Eleven truck drivers with histories of epilepsy or seizure disorders are asking federal regulators for exemptions. The post FMCSA reviews 11 epilepsy waiver requests from commercial drivers appeared ...

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 ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

Understanding epilepsy: Seven ways to respond to an epileptic seizure - At the forefront of epilepsy research and treatment is the University of Alabama at Birmingham Epilepsy Center, a collaborative initiative between the UAB Department of Neurology and UAB Hospital, ...

EPILEPSY AWARENESS: Local neurologist explains condition & seizure first aid - COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Local experts say epilepsy is not a condition to be afraid of. Piedmont Columbus Regional pediatric neurologist Pierre Fequiere treats patients with epilepsy every day and knows ...

Prognostic factors in vagus nerve stimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy. Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature - The aim of the present study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating prognostic factors of response to treatment with VNS implantation in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. We conducted a systematic review following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines to critically analyze relevant studies. The review question was formulated using the PICO framework: "In patients with drug-re...

Spontaneous orienting of untrained companion dogs naive to human epilepsy toward odor samples from an unfamiliar human in a controlled non-social paradigm: a proof-of-concept - CONCLUSIONS: Ictal odor may carry salience sufficient to influence initial attention in naïve dogs. However, findings are based on a single donor and require replication with multiple individuals to assess generalizability.

Psychosocial experiences are as important as medical factors in influencing the psychological functioning of children with epilepsy - Epilepsy can profoundly influence children's psychological functioning, yet the contextual factors shaping this experience remain insufficiently understood. Using data from 104 children with epilepsy, their parents, homeroom teachers, and 1829 classmates, this study examined factors affecting children's psychological functioning. A range of diagnostic, psychological, and social variables were a...

Network reprogramming after resection of occipital meningioangiomatosis: Evidence from multimodal localization and longitudinal fMRI - CONCLUSION: Multimodal findings localized the seizure onset to the right posterior region with widespread propagation. Postoperative rs-fMRI showed network changes consistent with partial normalization, paralleling sustained seizure freedom-though causality cannot be inferred from a single case.

"Homicide and Zonisamide": a review of the literature and illustrative case report on second and third generation antiseizure medications and psychiatric effects - CONCLUSION: Homicidal ideation should be contextualized within a spectrum of ASM-associated psychiatric adverse effects (PAEs). Zonisamide may have contributed to symptom emergence in a susceptible individual within a multifactorial neuropsychiatric context. To our knowledge, this is the first case report explicitly documenting homicidal ideation as an adverse event of zonisamide.

Pulse-based photoplethysmography quality assessment improves wearable seizure detection performance - OBJECTIVE: Wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) is increasingly used for seizure detection due to its ability to unobtrusively estimate heart rate (HR). However, the vulnerability of PPG to body movements often leads to unreliable HR estimates, compromising accurate seizure detection. Although this limitation is well recognized, methods for rejecting artifactual HR measures-and their impact on s...

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.