Epilepsy News

The Campaign for a National Plan for Epilepsy Needs Your Help - A future neurologist appeals for your support for the National Plan for Epilepsy to coordinate research and care to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, and hopefully a cure.

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 ...

Epilepsy Advocacy Network provides resources, plans fundraiser - One in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime, and one 1 in 10 people will have a seizure. November is just around the corner, and that is Epilepsy Awareness Month. Carrie Jones and Kim ...

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 ...

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 ...

Epilepsy Explained: Causes, Seizure Types, and Treatment Options for Better Control - Egyptian fruit bats flew more slowly after eating alcohol-laced food. Now the urine strips that caught boozy wild chimps may be used on wild bats. Teen Heart Health Scores Average 68.3 in Ninth Grade ...

Acute Perinatal Stroke Characteristics and Outcome in Southern Finland - CONCLUSION: The distribution of stroke types, symptoms, and adverse outcomes aligns with the previous literature. Acute seizures were common in AIS and HS patients. No recurrent strokes occurred during follow-up and underlying infant-related etiologies were rarely identified.

The Paradoxical Effect of Levetiracetam: A Case of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus Following Stereoelectroencephalography Implantation - The paradoxical effect of levetiracetam (LEV) refers to the paradoxical aggravation of epileptic seizures during clinical application. In this case, we report for the first time a patient with MRI-negative drug-resistant frontal lobe epilepsy who developed nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) following LEV dose escalation, as documented by stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG). The SEEG findin...

Reasons for not reoperating and outcomes of reoperation after seizure recurrence in pediatric epilepsy surgery: A population-based study - OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy surgery is an established and effective treatment for children with drug-resistant epilepsy. Although the majority of patients become seizure-free postoperatively, 20%-40% experience seizure recurrence. Although repeat surgery can achieve seizure freedom in selected cases, the reasons children with seizure recurrence do not undergo reoperation remain poorly understood. We ai...

A Cross-sectional Study for Estimation of Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Epileptic Patients - CONCLUSION: Based on these findings, it is concluded that there is a need to consider cognitive impairment as an important and often unrecognized comorbidity with the overall disease burden of patients with epilepsy. The authors emphasize that it is crucial to include routine cognitive assessments in daily clinical practice.

Diaphragm 'atonia' during ictal and post-ictal apnoea: A case report - CONCLUSIONS: This case provide a human polygraphic evidence of diaphragm and intercostal muscles silence during ICA and PCA, confirming the cascade of respiratory inhibition through brainstem respiratory centres down to respiratory muscles themselves. Notably, muscles relaxation occurred despite the patient was awake and able to follow commands.

An attention-enhanced hybrid CNN-BiLSTM framework for multiclass epileptic seizure recognition using EEG signals - INTRODUCTION: Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal classification plays a pivotal role in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and the diagnosis of neurological disorders. However, the non-stationary, non-linear, and low signal-to-noise ratio characteristics of EEG signals make accurate feature extraction challenging. Conventional deep learning approaches often struggle to simultaneously capture local...

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.