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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 ...

Closed-loop neurofeedback reshapes preparatory brain states to bias subsequent pain processing - EEG neurofeedback as a method to modulate brain activity prior to painful stimulation and examined its effect on pain perception in a well-powered, double-blind study. Results showed that real, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clinical significance of subclinical seizures in epilepsy presurgical evaluation: A systematic review and meta-analysis - OBJECTIVE: Subclinical seizures (SCSs) remain an understudied aspect of presurgical evaluation in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), with uncertain prevalence, distribution among epilepsy types, and predictive value for surgical outcomes. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to explore the occurrence of SCSs, their concordance with the seizure-onset zone (SOZ), and their asso...

Clinical subtypes and sleep-wake evolution pattern in epilepsy manifesting as sleep-related seizures - OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy manifesting as sleep-related seizures (EpSRS) represents a common but heterogeneous group. This study aimed to identify distinct clinical subtypes of EpSRS and explore alterations in sleep-wake seizure rhythms over the disease course.

Seizure Action Plans Beyond the Neurology Clinic: What Emergency, School, and Primary Care Teams Need to Know for Children With Epilepsy - Most seizures in children with epilepsy occur outside the neurology clinic. Seizure action plans (SAPs) are designed to extend the neurologist's management plan into these settings. Early SAPs primarily targeted caregivers, while current plans target not only caregivers but also teachers, other medical providers, and anyone else who may be able to intervene on behalf of these children. Some stu...

Recurrence rate and risk factors of recurrence after antiseizure medications withdrawal in children with epilepsy: a meta-analysis - CONCLUSION: Multiple factors increase recurrence risk after antiseizure medications withdrawal in children, supporting individualized clinical decision-making.

Bridging the Gap Between Depression and Epilepsy: A Call for Integrated Neuropsychiatric Care - "Brain health" encompasses key functions such as cognition, emotion, and behaviour, and is increasingly relevant given its role across neurological and psychiatric conditions. One of these, depression is the most common psychiatric comorbidity in people with epilepsy (PWE). When unrecognized and untreated, depression is associated with increased seizure severity and poorer treatment response, s...

Pathological and Physiological Significance of Hippocampal Ripples in Epilepsy - Ripple activity is defined as a high-frequency synchronous neural activity that has emerged as an important biomarker of epilepsy, both in research and clinical practice. In intracranial electroencephalography, ripple-band activity is closely linked to epileptogenicity and has been investigated as a marker to guide localization of epileptogenic tissue and predict surgical outcomes. Simultaneous...

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.