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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Corpus Callosotomy in LIS1 Lissencephaly: Postoperative Ketogenic Diet-Related Metabolic Derangements and Feeding Intolerance -
Classic lissencephaly from PAFAH1B1 (LIS1) haploinsufficiency presents with early, drug-resistant epilepsy; palliative strategies such as corpus callosotomy (CC) and vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) can be effective but are challenging to coordinate in children maintained on ketogenic dietary therapy (KDT). We report the case of a 6-year-old girl with de novo PAFAH1B1 deletion who underwent total ...
Expanding the phenotypic and genotypic spectrum of KCNT1-related epilepsies - The KCNT1 gene encodes for a sodium-activated potassium channel involved in neuronal excitability. Since its initial description in 2012 in patients with Epilepsy of Infancy with Migrating Focal Seizures (EIMFS) and in Sleep-related Hypermotor Epilepsy (SHE), the associated phenotypic spectrum has broadened-encompassing other focal epilepsies and Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies (DE...
Acquired pharmacoresistance in temporal lobe epilepsy is driven by Na(v)1.6-mediated subicular hyperexcitability - Pharmacoresistance to anti-seizure medications (ASMs) remains a major unmet challenge in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), and occurs diversely, as classified to primary or acquired manner. The pathophysiological underpinnings of acquired pharmacoresistance remain elusive. Here, using a hippocampal kindling mouse model, we established that prolonged lamotrigine (LTG) treatment-either during or afte...
Considerations for an awake craniotomy in a paediatric patient - Awake craniotomy facilitates real-time assessment of neurological function and maximises the extent of tumour resection, reducing the risk of postoperative deficits. Awake craniotomy is uncommonly performed in young children. To our knowledge, we report the youngest case of awake craniotomy in medical literature, involving a 6-year-old child. He had a right frontoparietal tumour and a 4-year hi...
Ganglioglioma and gangliocytoma: a review for pathologists - Ganglioglioma and gangliocytoma are rare, predominantly low-grade neuroepithelial tumors that commonly present with epilepsy in children and young adults. Advances in molecular profiling have improved understanding of their pathogenesis, highlighting key roles for the mitogen-activated protein kinase/ERK signaling pathway. Diagnosis relies on a combination of clinical, radiologic, and histopath...
Beyond Conventional Sleep Parameters: Circadian Rhythm Disruption in Adolescents with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy: An Actigraphy Study - Background/Objectives: Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is characterized by seizures clustering in the early morning hours, reflecting circadian modulation of cortical excitability. To the best of our knowledge, circadian rest-activity rhythms have not previously been objectively characterized in adolescents with JME, a gap that may be relevant to understanding seizure timing in this populatio...
Expanding the phenotypic and genotypic spectrum of KCNT1-related epilepsies - The KCNT1 gene encodes for a sodium-activated potassium channel involved in neuronal excitability. Since its initial description in 2012 in patients with Epilepsy of Infancy with Migrating Focal Seizures (EIMFS) and in Sleep-related Hypermotor Epilepsy (SHE), the associated phenotypic spectrum has broadened-encompassing other focal epilepsies and Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies (DE...
Acquired pharmacoresistance in temporal lobe epilepsy is driven by Na(v)1.6-mediated subicular hyperexcitability - Pharmacoresistance to anti-seizure medications (ASMs) remains a major unmet challenge in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), and occurs diversely, as classified to primary or acquired manner. The pathophysiological underpinnings of acquired pharmacoresistance remain elusive. Here, using a hippocampal kindling mouse model, we established that prolonged lamotrigine (LTG) treatment-either during or afte...
Considerations for an awake craniotomy in a paediatric patient - Awake craniotomy facilitates real-time assessment of neurological function and maximises the extent of tumour resection, reducing the risk of postoperative deficits. Awake craniotomy is uncommonly performed in young children. To our knowledge, we report the youngest case of awake craniotomy in medical literature, involving a 6-year-old child. He had a right frontoparietal tumour and a 4-year hi...
Ganglioglioma and gangliocytoma: a review for pathologists - Ganglioglioma and gangliocytoma are rare, predominantly low-grade neuroepithelial tumors that commonly present with epilepsy in children and young adults. Advances in molecular profiling have improved understanding of their pathogenesis, highlighting key roles for the mitogen-activated protein kinase/ERK signaling pathway. Diagnosis relies on a combination of clinical, radiologic, and histopath...
Beyond Conventional Sleep Parameters: Circadian Rhythm Disruption in Adolescents with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy: An Actigraphy Study - Background/Objectives: Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is characterized by seizures clustering in the early morning hours, reflecting circadian modulation of cortical excitability. To the best of our knowledge, circadian rest-activity rhythms have not previously been objectively characterized in adolescents with JME, a gap that may be relevant to understanding seizure timing in this populatio...
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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.
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.