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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 ...

Seizure action plans: More than management tools for epilepsy - Newswise — 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 ...

Frequent Cannabis Use Tied to Greater Seizure Burden in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - Frequent cannabis users with drug-resistant epilepsy have more convulsive seizures and require more antiseizure medications, but researchers caution that the findings do not establish causation.

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 ...

Epilepsy medication may reduce effectiveness of contraceptives - Roughly one-third of people with epilepsy prescribed certain hormonal contraceptives were also prescribed anti-seizure medications that may reduce the effectiveness of the contraceptives, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - Neurofeedback is a noninvasive form of therapy that trains the brain to improve various neurological issues, including chronic pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD. Using EEG to monitor real-time ...

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 ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy And How Does It Work? - Ashwini Nadkarni, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Interim Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women ...

Elite athletes enhance their performance with 'neurofeedback'—and you can get a device for $99 - When you think of the training tools that professional athletes have at their disposal, high-tech sports equipment and state-of-the-art athletic facilities come to mind. But training for peak ...

What Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

Understanding MEG Source Profiles in Tuberous Sclerosis - CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates a localization concordance between MEG and sEEG that is related to postsurgical seizure outcomes in patients with TSC. However, no correlation between MEG source number, laterality (unilateral vs. bilateral), and surgical outcomes was found, supporting the continued use of MEG as a presurgical epilepsy tool in this patient population, no matter the number of...

Sustained Seizure Freedom After Stereo-Electroencephalography Without Definitive Intervention: Evidence for Network Modulation by Invasive EEG - Stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG) is a diagnostic technique used to localize seizure-onset networks in drug-resistant epilepsy, typically guiding resection, ablation, or neuromodulation. Sustained seizure freedom after diagnostic implantation alone is rarely described. We describe two patients who achieved long-term remission after sEEG monitoring without definitive surgical intervention. A ...

The Impact of Plasmapheresis on Serum Concentrations of Antiseizure Medications: A Systematic Review - Seizures are an important neurological manifestation of several autoimmune and antibody-mediated disorders and often require treatment with antiseizure medications (ASMs). Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is frequently used to treat these antibody-mediated conditions by removing circulating pathogenic factors. However, TPE is non-selective and may also remove protein-bound ASMs, particularly t...

Rotavirus-associated mild encephalitis with a reversible splenial lesion of the corpus callosum - No abstract

Selective γ8 transmembrane α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor regulatory protein negative allosteric modulators: Efficacy in preclinical antiseizure models - OBJECTIVE: RAP-219, a potent selective negative allosteric modulator (NAM) of α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR) associated with γ8 transmembrane AMPAR regulatory protein (TARPγ8), is in phase 3 development for refractory focal epilepsy. This study was undertaken to assess efficacy and motor function following administration of AMPAR/TARPγ8 NAMs.

Self- and other-directed harmful behavior following deep brain stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus for drug-resistant epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: The current study examined the occurrence, clinical predictors, and neuroanatomical correlates of self- or other-directed harmful ideation or behavior (HIB) following deep brain stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT-DBS) for drug-resistant epilepsy.

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.