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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 ...

People with focal epilepsy often have seizures while driving before a diagnosis - Prior to being diagnosed with epilepsy, 5% of people with a type of epilepsy called focal epilepsy had a seizure while driving, according to a new study published in the June 7, 2023, online issue of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hybrid CNN transformer framework for EEG-based epileptic seizure detection - Early diagnosis and early intervention are important in the treatment of epilepsy, so detecting epileptic seizures from EEG signal is very important. However, the non-stationary nature of EEG signals, inter-subject variability and artefacts arising from noise are major challenges to the development of a robust, generalisable and real-time automated seizure detection system. Many current deep le...

Brain network construction and analysis for epilepsy: A methodology review - Epilepsy is increasingly understood as a network disorder, prompting widespread application of graph-theoretic methods to electrophysiological and neuroimaging data. The resulting methodological landscape-spanning functional, structural, and effective connectivity, together with dynamic and multimodal extensions-has grown fragmented. Following PRISMA guidelines, we screen Web of Science, IEEE X...

Real-time EEG-based epileptic seizure prediction using artificial intelligence: A systematic review - CONCLUSION: Despite high accuracy, the lack of prospective validation and standardised deployment metrics remains a major barrier to clinical translation. We propose an operational framework requiring standardised evaluation (PS/PI/EXT), explicit end-to-end latency budgets, and prospective FAR reporting per 24 h, to ensure clinical viability and patient outcomes.

Efficacy, tolerability, and EEG lateralization-based predictors of neuropsychiatric adverse events in pediatric SeLECTS treated with perampanel monotherapy - CONCLUSION: PER monotherapy demonstrates robust efficacy and excellent tolerability in pediatric SeLECTS. Specific neuropsychiatric adverse events appear to be associated with hemisphere-dependent neurobiological factors, independent of dosage. Integrating baseline EEG lateralization profiles may inform future biomarker-guided approaches.

Cross-cultural validation of the International Classification of Cognitive Disorders in Epilepsy (IC-CoDE) in Chinese-speaking people with epilepsy - CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates the cross-cultural adaptability of IC-CoDE in Chinese-speaking people with epilepsy, filling a gap in global IC-CoDE validation.

Pregabalin-Induced Myoclonus in a Patient Without Kidney Dysfunction - Pregabalin is FDA-approved for the treatment of neuropathic pain associated with diabetes, postherpetic neuralgia, spinal cord injury, and as an adjunctive treatment for partial seizures and thus is a commonly prescribed agent in the primary care, neurological, and pain management settings. Adverse effects of pregabalin include dizziness, somnolence, diplopia, blurry vision, and respiratory dep...

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.