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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 ...

Bellevue Therapist Beverly Brashen, Ph.D. Offers Specialized Insomnia Treatment and Neurofeedback Therapy for Trauma and Chronic Sleep Disorders Across Greater Seattle - The integrative therapist at beverlybrashen.com combines neurofeedback, CBT-I, somatic therapy, trauma-informed care, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fever seizures beyond the typical age: clinical characteristics and subsequent epilepsy risks in children over five - CONCLUSION: Febrile seizures occurring beyond the age of five may represent a clinically relevant subgroup. Although many children present with simple features and follow a favorable course, complex seizure characteristics and older age may be associated with an increased risk of subsequent epilepsy. Selected patients may therefore require careful clinical evaluation and follow-up.

Care process for severe epileptic seizures in the Community of Madrid: The Seizures Code - CONCLUSIONS: The Seizure Code is the first comprehensive model for urgent management of severe ESs implemented in a Spanish autonomous community. Its design promotes an early, homogeneous, and evidence-based response, with particular impact on the pediatric population. It enhances interhospital coordination and therapeutic adherence and is a dynamic tool that supports continuous evaluation and ...

Nocturnal tongue biting beyond epilepsy: sleep-related facio-mandibular myoclonus -a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge - We present a case of sleep-related facio-mandibular myoclonus (FMM) in a man in the third decade of life with recurrent tongue-biting episodes during sleep onset. Video-polysomnography and video-electroencephalogram revealed myoclonic jaw jerks without epileptiform activity. The episodes were associated with stress and improved with clonazepam and non-pharmacological interventions. This case hi...

Severe neonatal epilepsy linked to a novel homozygous SLC12A5 Arg508Cys variant with impaired chloride transport - The potassium-chloride cotransporter 2 (KCC2) is a neuron-specific transporter essential for maintaining low intracellular chloride levels. By extruding chloride ions, KCC2 ensures that activation of GABA(A) receptors produces hyperpolarizing inhibitory responses rather than depolarizing responses. Disruption of KCC2 function can therefore impair GABAergic signaling and neuronal maturation, con...

PPARalpha Activation with Fenofibrate Confers Hippocampal Neuroprotection but Lacks Disease-Modifying Efficacy in Chronic Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - Activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα) suppresses neuroinflammation and may interrupt epileptogenesis. We tested whether early intervention with the PPARα agonist fenofibrate exerts disease-modifying effects in the chronic phase of the lithium-pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Male Wistar rats received fenofibrate (100 mg/kg, i.p., daily for 15 days) i...

Improving epilepsy knowledge, attitudes & practices among primary health care providers: findings from a pre-post intervention study in Central India - CONCLUSION: A structured, role-specific epilepsy training intervention was associated with statistically significant improvements in knowledge, attitudes, and practices within PHCPs in a resource-limited rural setting that remained evident at the one year follow-up suggesting retention of training-related gains over time when compared to baseline. Scaling up such culturally tailored training pr...

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.