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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 ...

Seizure action plans: More than management tools for epilepsy - Newswise — 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 ...

One-Sided Brain Stimulation Calms Drug-Resistant Epilepsy in Landmark Case - A Japanese case report describes a woman with drug-resistant epilepsy whose seizures fell by about 60 percent after deep brain stimulation of only one side of the thalamus.

Patients engage with epilepsy monitor in real time, improving seizure detection - A team has built an AI-based interface that enables real-time communication between patients and epilepsy monitoring devices. As part of a small clinical study at the University of Pennsylvania in ...

Seizure or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A sudden episode of shaking, confusion, or loss of awareness can be frightening - but does it mean epilepsy? Understanding the difference between a seizure and epilepsy is crucial for timely treatment ...

First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model expedites access to specialists after a first seizure. The mean time between the referral and the ...

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 ...

Can Neurofeedback Effectively Treat ADHD? - Neurofeedback training is an alternative therapy that uses real-time EEG data to help patients train their brains to improve focus, impulse control, and executive function. Since the 1970s, patients ...

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 ...

Can Monitoring Brain Waves Boost Mental Health? - Neurofeedback has promised a mental health revolution for decades. But is it effective? Credit...Tony Luong for The New York Times Supported by By David Dodge Twice a week, Stephanie, a 37-year-old ...

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 ...

Medical Conditions and Early Development in Toddlers With Down Syndrome - CONCLUSION: Findings highlight the associations between co-occurring medical conditions and developmental heterogeneity among young children with DS. Results underscore the need for further work, including longitudinal research studies, to clarify the role of medical conditions in shaping neurodevelopment in DS.

Management of seizures in patients with brain tumors - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Discoveries relating to the cancer neuroscience of gliomas have reframed brain tumor-related epilepsy (BTRE) as the product of reciprocal interactions at the neural-tumor interface. This framework provides the rationale for targeted strategies to optimize both seizure control and brain tumor survival outcomes.

Delayed diagnosis of familial glucocorticoid deficiency type 4 in a child with epilepsy: a case report and literature review - CONCLUSIONS: This case expands the mutational spectrum of NNT-related FGD4 and emphasizes the importance of considering adrenal insufficiency in pediatric patients presenting with seizures and hyperpigmentation. Early recognition and diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency enable timely hormone replacement therapy and may reduce the risk of neurological and metabolic complications.

Rare Xq23 Microdeletion Involving the DCX and PAK3 Genes Presenting With Lissencephaly, Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum, and Intractable Epilepsy: A Case Report - X-linked lissencephaly spectrum disorder is a rare neurodevelopmental condition resulting from pathogenic variants that disrupt normal neuronal migration, with doublecortin (DCX) being one of the genes most frequently implicated. Similarly, pathogenic variants of the p21-activated kinase 3 (PAK3) gene are associated with X-linked syndromic intellectual disability, developmental delay, and epile...

Recurrent Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures During Emergence from Propofol Target-Controlled Infusion in a Patient Undergoing Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: A Case Report - CONCLUSION: In addition to further strengthening the evidence regarding rare neurological events associated with propofol, this case suggests that propofol administration via TCI based on the Schnider model may not completely eliminate the risk of drug-induced seizures; thus, anesthesiologists should remain vigilant. Furthermore, the sequential administration of midazolam and diazepam may repre...

Progressive myoclonic epilepsy in two brothers: genetic testing in the younger brother and pathological examination in the elder brother - We report progressive myoclonic epilepsy in two brothers. The younger brother was diagnosed with progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 1 (EPM1) by genetic testing, and the elder brother underwent pathological examination. The parents were cousins. Both brothers presented with epileptic seizures in their early teens, followed by progressive cognitive impairment and cerebellar ataxia. In later life...

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.