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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 ...

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? - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Electroencephalogram Utilization, Epileptiform Findings, and Associated Factors Among Children with Epilepsy in Southwestern Uganda: A 5-Year Retrospective Record Review - OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy is the most common neurological condition in children in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). Although the diagnosis remains majorly clinical, EEG is fundamental in assessment and management of epilepsy. However, its uptake remains low in LMIC. We aimed to determine the proportion of children with epilepsy who have had an EEG, the proportion of epileptiform EEGs, and the ...

Moderate-intensity treadmill exercise improved the anticonvulsant efficacy of topiramate and attenuated anxiety and depressive-like side effects in epileptic rats by upregulating 5-HT1A receptors i... - CONCLUSION: The current findings demonstrate that adjunctive moderate-intensity treadmill exercise potentiates the anticonvulsant efficacy of topiramate and effectively counteracts its depressive-like side effects and anxiety. This behavioral improvement was correlated with exercise-mediated upregulation of 5-HT1A receptors, suggesting a potential mechanistic link. These findings provide a prec...

Prevalence and clinical correlates of autoimmune and infection-related antibodies in unexplained seizures in western China - CONCLUSION: Combined detection of neural autoantibodies, systemic autoimmune antibodies, and infection-related serological markers facilitates etiological diagnosis and identification of candidates for early immunotherapy in patients with unexplained seizures in western China.

Epigenetic ageing is accelerated in drug-resistant epilepsy and dynamically modulated during ketogenic diet therapy - BACKGROUND: The ketogenic diet (KD) is an established treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy. Beyond seizure reduction, many patients report improved energy, cognition, and well-being. DNA methylation (DNAm)-based epigenetic clocks provide molecular indices of biological ageing and may capture short-term adaptations induced by dietary therapy.

Efficacy and safety of fenfluramine in Dravet syndrome: The impact of patient clinical characteristics - OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy and safety of fenfluramine in patients with Dravet syndrome (DS) stratified by age, number of previously attempted antiseizure medications (ASMs), and SCN1A pathogenic variant status.

Correlation of polygenic risk score and clinical phenotype in patients with genetic generalized epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: The polygenic risk score (PRS) for individuals with genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE) quantifies the common risk variants in genes identified in genome-wide association studies. We hypothesized that the phenotype of GGE patients differs based on their GGE PRS.

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.