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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 ...

The brain has its own thermostat. A study shows epilepsy may interfere with it - Doctors have long known that changes in body temperature can affect seizure activity. Fever can trigger seizures in some young children, while in rare forms of epilepsy, bathing in hot water can bring ...

Seizure Burden in Resistant Epilepsy May Ease With the Tincture of Time - Nearly 70% of patients with focal treatment-resistant epilepsy (FTRE) experience fewer seizures over time, new results of a multicenter study showed. However, the improvements occurred independent of ...

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 ...

Wearable Digital Health Technology for Epilepsy - This review article presents two true-life clinical vignettes that illustrate how digital health technology can aid providers caring for patients with epilepsy. Specific information that would ...

Seizure first aid, epilepsy awareness bill signed into law - Legislation aimed at helping South Carolina workplaces respond appropriately when someone experiences a seizure has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that the memory-forming stage of sleep could be key for understanding epileptic seizures. . | Credit: ...

Seizure improvement following intravenous immunoglobulin in drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy associated with systemic lupus erythematosus - No abstract

SeizureBiomeDB: a unified database of gut microbiome alterations in pediatric and adult epilepsy - MOTIVATION: The gut microbiome plays a critical role in health, immunity, metabolism, and brain function. Growing evidence links it to neurological health via the gut-brain axis. Seizure disorders are associated with distinct microbial changes that vary by epilepsy type and developmental stage, yet data are scattered across numerous published studies. To address this, we developed SeizureBiomeD...

Glucose Transporter Deficiency Syndrome Type 1 (Glut1-DS): New Insights From a Brazilian Cohort of Patients - Glucose transporter deficiency syndrome type 1 (Glut1-DS) is a rare neurometabolic disorder caused by pathogenic variants in SLC2A1, characterized by epilepsy, neurodevelopmental delay, movement disorders, dysarthria, intellectual disability, and postnatal microcephaly. We aimed to characterize the natural history of a Brazilian cohort of patients with Glut1-DS. Brazilian patients of all ages w...

A CNN-BiLSTM-GRU and attention-integrated hybrid network for epileptic seizure detection - INTRODUCTION: Epilepsy is a common neurological disease, and accurate seizure detection is essential for clinical monitoring and scientific treatment. This study aims to construct an effective intelligent detection model to achieve precise automatic identification of epileptic EEG signals and assist clinical medical decisions.

Determinants of health-related quality of life in pediatric epilepsy: the impact of treatment tolerability and epilepsy type - CONCLUSION: In this cohort, HRQOL was more strongly associated with treatment-related adverse effects than with most seizure-related variables. Treatment tolerability appears to represent an important and modifiable correlate of well-being. Routine assessment of adverse effects may enhance patient-centered care.

Pathophysiological frameworks and emerging preventative strategies in SUDEP - Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) represents a leading cause of epilepsy-related mortality, reflecting a severe disruption of systemic physiology that remains challenging to address using standard clinical protocols. Although generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS) and pharmacoresistance are established risk indicators, current clinical risk stratification frequently lacks the predic...

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.