Epilepsy News

What to know about epilepsy and seizure first aid - November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. Many people may already be aware of the condition from its prevalence in medical dramas, but that portrayal is often exaggerated and does not fully encapsulate ...

'Unique' AI-powered headset can predict epilepsy seizures - A “unique” AI-powered headset that can predict epileptic seizures minutes before they occur has been developed by scientists in Scotland. The Glasgow Caledonian University team behind the research say ...

Tragedy Strikes: Man with Epilepsy Falls Into Bonfire - A 50-year-old man, Basawan, suffering from epilepsy, tragically died after he fell into a bonfire during a seizure in Bhakora village. The police reported that his body was found half-burnt by ...

New tools map seizures in the brain, improve epilepsy treatment - Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that part ...

First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - The first seizure clinic model enabled rapid diagnosis and treatment for children with epilepsy, according to data presented at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting. These specialized ...

Fenfluramine linked to significantly improved seizure outcomes vs. placebo at 14 weeks - Individuals with a rare form of epilepsy treated with fenfluramine experienced significantly greater seizure reduction as well as clinically meaningful global functioning improvement compared with ...

National Epilepsy Day: 4 Effective ways to help with seizure control - National Epilepsy Day is marked on November 17, which serves as a reminder to raise awareness about epilepsy and support those living with this neurological condition. Epilepsy is a disorder of the ...

What Is Epilepsy Surgery? - Medications can control seizures in most people with epilepsy, but they don’t work for everyone. About 30% of people taking the drugs can’t tolerate the side effects. In some cases, brain surgery may ...

Women and Epilepsy - You could say that epilepsy doesn't discriminate. It strikes men and women at about the same rate. Men are slightly more likely to develop it than women. But that doesn't mean that it always affects ...

Evidence-based recommendations empower clinicians to manage epilepsy in pregnancy - For the first time, clinicians have access to a clear, evidence-based roadmap for adjusting antiseizure medication doses during pregnancy and after childbirth.

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 ...

How Neurofeedback Can Help You - Neurofeedback is a computer-guided, noninvasive brain-function training based on EEG feedback. Neurofeedback is also called “neurotherapy,” “neurobiofeedback,” or “electroencephalography” (EEG) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brain-training game may ease chronic pain without drugs - Chronic pain has long forced patients into a trade-off between constant discomfort and the side effects of powerful drugs. A new brain-training video game suggests that, for at least some people, ...

Chemogenetic activation of hippocampal area CA2 promotes acute and chronic seizures in a mouse model of epilepsy - Pyramidal cells (PCs) of hippocampal area CA2 exhibit increased excitability in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and in mouse models of TLE. In epileptic mice, selective inhibition of CA2 PCs reduces chronic seizures. Here we asked if activating CA2 PCs increases seizures. Mice expressing Cre recombinase in CA2 PCs (Amigo2-Cre mice) were injected with the convulsant pilocarpine to induce a period o...

Feature Library for Behavioural Characterization of Early and Late Seizures in an Experimental Model of Post-Traumatic Epilepsy - CONCLUSIONS: The Proposed feature list can be applied for the harmonization of data analysis and reporting, and training of video-based seizure detection algorithms to speed up non-invasive, affordable epilepsy diagnosis and assessment of treatment effects in TBI models.

Polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumor of the young: a molecular pathological study - Objective: To investigate the clinical, radiologic, pathological and molecular genetic features of polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumor of the young (PLNTY). Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on fourteen PLNTY cases, diagnosed at the Department of Pathology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, from August 2018 to December 2024. The clinical, radiologic, prognostic...

Development and International Validation of a Novel Imaging-Based Risk Score (IsCHEMiA) for the Prediction of Poststroke Epilepsy - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Stroke is one of the most common causes of adult-onset epilepsy. We aimed to develop a model to predict poststroke epilepsy (PSE) after a first-ever ischemic stroke, incorporating neuroimaging features of incident stroke.

A novel PTEN variant causing hemimegalencephaly and focal nodular heterotopias in the developing human brain - Brain development and subsequent brain function are highly sensitive to genetic mutations, which can result in severe neurodevelopmental malformations. Alterations in PTEN signaling cause a spectrum of developmental malformations and neurological diseases including epilepsy. To date, a detailed understanding of the neuropathological underpinnings of PTEN-associated brain malformations, particul...

EEG and surface-electromyography correlate of tonic seizures in supplementary sensorimotor area epilepsy - No abstract

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.