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Watch Out! A Few Minutes of Seizure May Mean Years of Mental Health Risk - Post-seizure psychosis may be linked to a higher risk of future psychiatric disorders in people with epilepsy.

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 first aid, epilepsy awareness bill signed into law - Legislation aimed at helping South Carolina workplaces respond appropriately when someone experiences a seizure has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.

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: ...

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 ...

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? - 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 ...

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 ...

Time-dependent predictors of seizure outcome in grade 1-2 glioma-related epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: Given the reciprocal interaction between tumor biology and seizure activity, seizure outcomes in low-grade glioma (LGG) may be dynamic and influenced by both tumor- and treatment-related factors. We aimed to identify factors associated with seizure occurrence across distinct clinical stages, including diagnosis, surgery, long-term follow-up, and antiseizure medication (ASM) withdrawal.

Resistant hypertension and epileptic seizures: a possible modulatory role of renal denervation-a case report - BACKGROUND: Renal denervation (RDN) is an emerging therapy for selected patients with resistant hypertension. Its broader autonomic effects may extend beyond blood pressure regulation.

Timely Surgical Approaches for Pediatric Epilepsy Resistant to Medication - Meckel's Pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) is a significant neurological disorder that develops when seizures persist despite treatment with two appropriately selected antiseizure medications. Although only a subset of children with epilepsy develops DRE, prolonged uncontrolled seizures during childhood can result in irreversible cognitive, behavioral, and developmental impairment. Over t...

Effect of Extracellular Vesicles on Neurobehavioral Sequelae and Late Seizures After Traumatic Brain Injury in a Mouse Model of Controlled Cortical Impact - Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major global health issue, with approximately 27 million new cases annually. TBI significantly increases the risk of developing post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), which may emerge weeks to years after the initial injury. Currently, effective therapies for both TBI and PTE remain limited. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have d...

Case Report: longitudinal imaging in a patient with SMART syndrome after cranial radiotherapy - CONCLUSION: This longitudinal case supports the hypothesis that SMART syndrome may represent a spectrum of radiation-induced cortical vulnerability, with possible recurrence and earlier, milder manifestations. Its coexistence with these cavernous malformations is compatible with a shared substrate of chronic radiation-induced microvascular injury. We propose a multimodal diagnostic framework th...

Clinical outcomes and unmet therapeutic needs in new-onset refractory status epilepticus: evidence from a retrospective cohort - CONCLUSIONS: NORSE defines a distinct and severe clinical syndrome within status epilepticus, characterized by older age, female predominance and adverse outcomes. Beyond the clinical severity of NORSE, our findings show that cohort composition is highly sensitive to the temporal operationalization of consensus criteria. Standardized application of diagnostic timing may therefore be essential f...

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.