Epilepsy News

Neurologist lists 5 must-follow rules for people with epilepsy to reduce risk of complications - The seizures associated with epilepsy can be a danger to the patient as well as the people around them in some cases. Dr Chawla explains how to lower risk.

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 ...

EPILEPSY AWARENESS: Local neurologist explains condition & seizure first aid - COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Local experts say epilepsy is not a condition to be afraid of. Piedmont Columbus Regional pediatric neurologist Pierre Fequiere treats patients with epilepsy every day and knows ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

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 ...

Seizure Control in Focal Epilepsy Often Delayed Beyond First Year of Treatment - Most newly diagnosed patients with focal epilepsy continued to have seizures for a year or more after starting antiseizure medications (ASMs), results from the latest Human Epilepsy Project (HEP) ...

Association between persisting peritumoral brain edema and seizures as well as worse functional outcome after meningioma surgery: a retrospective study of 218 patients - CONCLUSIONS: Persisting PTBE is associated with worse functional outcome and with persisting and new-onset seizures. Based on EEG findings, persisting PTBE (i.e., gliosis) may be the epileptogenic focus in some patients. Future studies are needed to assess whether these gliotic sites could even be therapeutic targets for seizure control.

Vagus nerve stimulation for refractory epilepsy: a 24-year single-center experience - CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that patients with refractory epilepsy who experience low baseline seizure frequency (< 1-2/month and < 1-2/year) received the most benefit from VNS. All patients with refractory seizures should be considered for VNS therapy but should undergo careful case selection to manage expectations and maximize seizure outcomes and medication burden.

Tumor-associated epilepsy at diagnosis in glioblastoma patients reveals an inflammatory molecular signature and is associated with better overall survival - CONCLUSIONS: TAE at diagnosis is a favorable prognostic marker in GB, defining a biologically distinct subgroup. Seizure status modifies the prognostic effect of surgical resection, underscoring the importance of GTR particularly in patients presenting with TAE.

Epilepsy characteristics and outcomes in patients with pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas - CONCLUSIONS: Most patients with PXA-associated tumor-related epilepsy achieved seizure freedom after initial resection. Seizure recurrence was strongly associated with tumor recurrence at long-term follow up. ATRX loss was associated with seizure freedom at the most recent follow up, suggesting that tumor molecular features may help prognosticate epilepsy outcomes. Nearly one-third of patients ...

Reversible ipsilateral triple-region diffusion restriction after post-traumatic status epilepticus - This is a Neuro-Images submission. Per the journal's Instructions for Authors, Neuro-Images articles do not require an abstract. A brief summary is provided below for indexing purposes: A 41-year-old man with post-traumatic epilepsy developed status epilepticus after self-discontinuing antiseizure medications for two months. Brain MRI demonstrated simultaneous diffusion restriction in the right...

'To improve is to change'-but is it safe? A single surgeon's transition from lateral to vertical hemispherotomy - CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that a single experienced epilepsy surgeon can safely transition between techniques, without compromising on seizure freedom outcomes or incurring additional morbidity. Whilst larger studies may demonstrate the favourability of one technique over the other, it may be useful to the individual surgeon to have a sound grasp of both techniques in their armamentar...

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.