Epilepsy News

Epilepsy awareness in the workplace: training and safety tips - More than 35,000 Long Islanders live with epilepsy. Experts urge businesses to provide seizure training, safety plans, and awareness to protect employees and customers.

Health Beat: Treating epilepsy - Nearly three million Americans live with epilepsy. And for one-third of them, anti-seizure medications don't work.

Many people have seizures. Here's why that doesn’t always mean epilepsy. - One of the most common causes of epilepsy is a structural brain abnormality. “Epilepsy can result from structural issues in the brain, such as brain tumors, brain injuries, brain infections or ...

Planning a pregnancy with epilepsy? Read this before changing your medication - Pregnancy with epilepsy is manageable, with most women having healthy babies. Expert Dr. Meena Muthiah emphasizes that staying on anti-seizure medication, with proper guidance, is crucial for both ...

Epileptic seizure detection device to launch in Europe - A wearable device that can alert patients and caregivers minutes before a seizure occurs is set to launch across Europe.

Epilepsy myths you must stop believing: Expert busts the biggest misconceptions - Epilepsy is still surrounded by harmful myths and stigma. This expert-backed guide breaks down the most common misconceptions, explains what seizures really are, how epilepsy is diagnosed, what ...

National Epilepsy Day 2025: The seizure myths putting lakhs of Indians at risk, says neurologist - Epilepsy remains widely misunderstood in India, with 2–5 lakh new cases yearly. Neurologist warns that myths delay treatment and stress that proper diagnosis, medication and awareness can help most ...

How Do Cavernous Malformations Affect Seizure Risk? - The risk for a first-ever epileptic seizure after cerebral cavernous malformations is low, with younger age and initial presentation with epileptic seizures being significant risk factors.

Managing Epilepsy in Pregnancy: ASM Safety and Neurodevelopmental Risks - In honor of Epilepsy Awareness Month, experts highlight the importance of managing in utero exposure to anti-seizure medications during pregnancy.

Xenon to Present New Azetukalner OLE Study Data in Epilepsy at AES 2025 - Seven posters to be presented, including new X-TOLE OLE data supporting the ability to attain and regain extended periods of seizure freedom with long-term use of azetukalner Data will also highlight ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his hand, the kind you could use to tote a dirty bomb. Once inside my living room, he cracked open the case and removed a laptop, a ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - When I was a child, my mother suffered from horrible migraine headaches. Sometimes they were so bad that she’d have to close herself up in her bedroom for days with the shades drawn. Traditional pain ...

Neurofeedback may ease pain of chemotherapy-induced neuropathy - Functional brain training, known as neurofeedback, effectively reduced symptoms associated with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, according to a randomized pilot study published in Cancer.

Neurofeedback Reduces Pain Associated With Peripheral Neuropathy From Chemotherapy - Pain from chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy may be able to be reduced using neurofeedback, according to a recent study. Chemotherapy can have a number of side effects on patients with cancer, ...

Betsy DeVos backs a technique claiming to cure ADHD without medication — but the science is questionable - Every time Erin publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox! Enter your email By clicking “Sign up”, you agree to receive emails from Business ...

PAK1 Is Involved in Epileptogenesis by Regulating the Synaptic Plasticity of Hippocampal Neurons Through LIMK - PAK1, a key regulator of cytoskeletal remodeling, is associated with synaptic plasticity, but its role in epilepsy remains unclear. This study investigated whether PAK1 contributes to epileptogenesis by modulating hippocampal synaptic plasticity via the LIMK signalling pathway. A chronic epilepsy model was induced in mice via the use of pentylenetetrazol (PTZ). LV-PAK1-shRNA was stereotacticall...

Neighbourhood topology unveils pathological hubs in the brain networks of epilepsy-surgery patients - Pathological hubs in the brain networks of epilepsy patients are hypothesized to drive seizure generation and propagation. In epilepsy-surgery patients, these hubs have traditionally been associated with the resection area (RA): the region removed during the surgery with the goal of stopping the seizures, and which is typically used as a proxy for the epileptogenic zone. However, recent studies...

Reproducibility of temporally evolving seizure patterns and network connectivity in focal epilepsy - Clinical semiology, waveform patterns, frequency band characteristics, neuronal spiking activity, and connectivity network dynamics exhibit notable reproducibility across seizures in the same patient. However, whether these reproducible features distinctly delineate the epileptogenic zone (EZ), propagation zone (PZ), and non-involved zone (NIZ) and the underlying temporal dynamics remain unclea...

A deep hybrid CSAE-GRU framework with two-stage balancing for automatic epileptic seizure detection using EEG-derived features - INTRODUCTION: Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by abnormal neuronal discharges in the brain, posing a persistent challenge in clinical diagnosis. This study presents a high-performance epileptic seizure detection framework that integrates advanced feature extraction and classification techniques using EEG signals.

Case Report: Electroacupuncture combined with transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation for treating antiseizure medication-resistant juvenile myoclonic epilepsy - CONCLUSION: This case suggests that combined electroacupuncture and taVNS may be a promising non-pharmacological adjunct in the treatment of ASM-resistant JME, contributing to improved seizure control and multidimensional QOL outcomes.

Advances in understanding the role of inflammatory factors and immune cells in the pathology of epilepsy, mediated by neuroimmune interactions within the gut-brain axis - Epilepsy is a prevalent chronic neurological disorder, affecting approximately 70 million individuals globally, with its pathogenesis primarily attributed to recurrent seizures caused by abnormal neuronal discharges in the brain. Recent research has increasingly recognized the critical role of neuroinflammation in the central nervous system in the onset and progression of epilepsy. Furthermore,...

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.