Epilepsy News

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Association of dietary inflammatory index and specific nutrients with anti-seizure medications use among U.S. adults - Anti-seizure medications (ASMs) are prescribed for epilepsy and other conditions including neuropathic pain and migraine. Dietary patterns may modulate inflammation, which has been implicated in neurological conditions. This study aimed to investigate the association of dietary inflammation, measured by the dietary inflammatory index (DII), and specific nutrients and ASM use among U.S. adults. ...

Infection Triggered Encephalopathies in Australian Children: A National Multicentre Case Series 2013-2024 - CONCLUSION(S): ITES is an uncommon complication of common infections in Australian children. Influenza was the most frequently associated pathogen, with ANE the most frequent specific ITES sub-type. Outcomes are variable, but concerningly poor for some ITES sub-types including ANE.

Instrumental, Neurophysiological, cognitive and Sleep InvestiGations into the High risk of neurodegeneraTion in Late Onset Epilepsy of Unknown aetiology: the INSIGHT-LOEU study - Late-onset epilepsy (LOE) remains of unknown aetiology (LOEU) in around 20% of cases. Longitudinal studies have demonstrated the presence of early cognitive impairment at seizure onset, progressive memory decline and a substantially elevated risk of dementia within a decade of diagnosis, with an increased risk of subsequent neurodegenerative disorders, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD). LOE...

Surgical Candidacy, Barriers, and Facilitators of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya: A Mixed Methods Study - CONCLUSIONS: Four in ten children with epilepsy are potential surgical candidates. Strengthening community engagement, addressing knowledge gaps, and building health system capacity are essential in optimizing pediatric epilepsy surgery in Uganda.

Adherence to anti-seizure medications among persons living with epilepsy attending a community- based epilepsy clinic in Buikwe and Mukono Districts-Uganda: A mixed methods study - CONCLUSION: This study revealed that about two- thirds of people living with epilepsy were adherent to anti-seizure medications. There is a need to implement strategies such as incorporating a medication adherence tool into routine patient care to improve adherence in our settings.

Temperature homeostasis disruption and hypothalamic alterations in experimental drug-resistant epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: Elevated body temperature may increase seizure risk, yet the relationship between thermoregulation and seizures, as well as the underlying mechanisms, remains poorly understood. We investigated whether thermoregulatory control is altered in experimental temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), as such impairment could reduce the ability of affected individuals to adapt to environmental temperat...

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.