Epilepsy News

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-alert dogs give new freedom to epilepsy sufferers - He is a specially trained seizure dog who may one day be able to save the life of his new owner, Colise Johnson. "Having epilepsy and cerebral palsy is kind of like having a nonstop roller coaster ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Novel neurofeedback technique enhances awareness of mind-wandering - Everyone knows the feeling. You are trying to concentrate on driving or studying, or paying attention in a boring meeting, but suddenly, you realize that you are thinking about something irrelevant to ...

Beware of Tall Stature: Growth Hormone Excess Associated with a Rare Parasellar Extra-Axial Tumour-Diagnostic and Management Challenges in a Resource-Limited Setting - CONCLUSION: GH excess and gigantism can arise secondary to parasellar pathology rather than intrinsic pituitary disease, with neurological features like refractory epilepsy occasionally preceding classic endocrine manifestations. Rapid adolescent growth paired with neurological signs warrants urgent structural neuroimaging. Meticulous perioperative pituitary monitoring and early multidisciplina...

Antiseizure Medication Dispensing Before and After Initiation of Antidementia Medicines: A Population-Based Matched Cohort Study - CONCLUSIONS: ASM dispensing, most noticeably valproate, was higher in people with antidementia medicine dispensing than in controls, modestly before and markedly after initiation. Behavioural and psychiatric indications seem to predominate, with a smaller seizure-related contribution possibly beginning before treatment, although dispensing data cannot confirm indications. Valproate use warrants...

Early benzodiazepine treatment and electrographic seizures after febrile status epilepticus - No abstract

Seizure and psychiatric outcomes following epilepsy surgery in patients with preoperative interictal psychosis: A systematic review - CONCLUSIONS: Available evidence is insufficient to determine whether preoperative interictal psychosis independently influences seizure or psychiatric outcomes following epilepsy surgery. Small samples, heterogeneous diagnostic definitions, inconsistent psychiatric assessments, and limited comparator data preclude firm conclusions. Future studies should use standardized operational definitions ...

Clinical value of video monitoring in seizure classification and medication decision-making: A questionnaire-based study in outpatients with epilepsy - CONCLUSION: Ictal video recording was associated with clinically meaningful revision of seizure classification and influenced ASM decisions in outpatients with epilepsy, with higher diagnostic yield observed for more professional recording modalities. Video evidence may help correct classification bias arising from reliance on verbal history, particularly in identifying focal onset.

Epilepsy Online Social Support: Characterizing topics and challenges shared in the r/Epilepsy community - Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions, and people living with epilepsy (PLWE) often use social media as a resource. However, a comprehensive understanding of the topics represented in epilepsy-specific communities where PLWE may be more honest is essential to designing better technologies to address epilepsy self-management. To understand the main topics and concerns of PLW...

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.