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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Decoding epilepsy in brain waves - Neurologists often use EEGs to help diagnose epilepsy, but routine recordings offer only about a 20-minute snapshot of brain activity. Without a seizure captured during that window, clinicians must ...

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 ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...

Neuropathological Findings Following Failure of Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy for an Epileptogenic Cerebral Cavernous Malformation - We describe the case of a 32-year-old woman with focal drug-resistant epilepsy, who underwent surgical resection of a cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM), previously treated with laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), after experiencing seizure recurrence. Histological findings after LITT have been rarely described. We report and discuss neuropathological findings to explain post-LITT sei...

Auricular acupuncture attenuates neuronal damage in kainic acid-induced epilepsy related to mGluR5 and GABA(A) receptor alpha1 subunit modulation - Epilepsy affects over 50 million people worldwide, with more than one-third developing drug-resistant forms. While acupuncture is increasingly utilized for seizure management, its molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study investigated the neuroprotective effects of auricular electroacupuncture (EA) in a kainic acid (KA)-induced rat model of epilepsy. Rats received EA at the hear...

Morin, a bioflavonoid from a traditional medicinal plant, attenuates inflammasome-associated neuroinflammation in drug-resistant epilepsy - Morin, a bioflavonoid abundant in Morus alba (Moraceae) and traditionally used in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine for the treatment of convulsions and inflammation, modulates neuroinflammatory pathways relevant to epilepsy. This study investigated the effects of morin on inflammasome-associated neuroinflammation, assessed using downstream markers such as caspase-1 and IL-1β, in a rotenone-lamotri...

Sleep disruption and neuropsychiatric features in Angelman syndrome: insights into underlying neurobiology - Sleep disorders are a core feature of Angelman syndrome (AS), affecting approximately 80% of individuals. They typically manifest as insomnia and disrupted sleep-wake cycles and contribute substantially to the burden experienced by affected individuals and their families. AS is caused by loss of function of the ubiquitin protein ligase E3A (UBE3A) gene, which encodes the E3 ubiquitin ligase E6A...

Early infantile developmental and epileptic encephalopathy: clinical spectrum, diagnosis, outcomes, and evolving treatment strategies - Early infantile developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (EIDEE) is among the most severe epilepsy syndromes, with onset before three months of age and an estimated incidence of approximately 10 per 100,000 live births. The 2022 International League Against Epilepsy classification unified the historically distinct Ohtahara syndrome and early myoclonic encephalopathy under a single diagnostic ...

Patient-Specific Non-Invasive Epileptogenic Zone Localization via High-Resolution Time-Frequency Representations and CNN Deep Learning - Stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG)-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation is the mainstream treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), yet non-invasive patient-specific localization of potential epileptogenic zone (EZ) prior to SEEG electrode implantation remains a critical unmet clinical need, hindered by limited automation, suboptimal accuracy, and poor cross-patient generalizability. To ...

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.