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Frequent cannabis use tied to more severe epilepsy - Adults with hard-to-treat epilepsy who used cannabis most days had more than twice as many convulsive seizures per year and became resistant to antiseizure medications more quickly than nonusers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every seizure can look and feel very different: NMU holds presentation on epilepsy and seizure training - The presentation hopes to clear up misconceptions regarding epilepsy and seizures as well as how to help those in need.

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 ...

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that the memory-forming stage of sleep could be key for understanding epileptic seizures. . | Credit: ...

Does Levetiracetam Improve Seizure Outcomes in Pediatric Epilepsy? - Although levetiracetam was associated with improved seizure outcomes compared with placebo in pediatric epilepsy, it did not demonstrate superior efficacy when compared with established active ...

Clinical outcomes of dynamic [(18)F]-FDG PET in focal epilepsy: a prospective early observational study - CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that dPET, by capturing metabolic rate rather than concentration, can identify regions that correspond to the EZ with a high degree of concordance in surgically confirmed cases, including many with nonlocalizing structural imaging. While this early phase study is not powered to establish diagnostic accuracy, the results support further investigation of dPET a...

Sudden Unexplained Deaths in Childhood: A Scoping Review - CONCLUSIONS: SUDC research has grown but remains constrained by small datasets and methodological inconsistency.

Epilepsy and menopausal health: A European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) and Centre for Global Epilepsy clinical guide - INTRODUCTION: Menopause presents unique clinical challenges for women with epilepsy, with hormonal changes, antiseizure medication interactions, and comorbid health risks converging to potentially influence seizure susceptibility, treatment requirements, and long-term health outcomes.

Modelling stigma in paediatric epilepsy: Child stigma as a predictor of parental stigma - CONCLUSION: Children with epilepsy and their parents reported relatively high levels of perceived stigma. The strong association between CSS and PSS scores suggests that stigma in epilepsy is experienced by both children and their parents and may extend beyond the individual to the family context. Pediatric nurses should regularly assess stigma, identify psychosocial needs, and develop family-c...

Use of purified cannabidiol as add-on therapy in children with non-self-limited focal epilepsies of childhood: A multicenter study - CONCLUSION: Adjunctive purified CBD was associated with sustained seizure reduction and good long-term tolerability in children with treatment-resistant non-SeLFEs. Responses were observed across different focal epilepsy etiologies, supporting further evaluation of CBD in this population. Individualized dosing according to response and tolerability may be appropriate in this heterogeneous popul...

Antiseizure medications in children with acute symptomatic seizures: A quality improvement project - CONCLUSION: The implementation of a weaning protocol through our QI project contributed to a reduction in the duration of ASM use among children with ASyS admitted to our hospital without considerable impact on seizure outcomes.

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.