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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 ...

Early diagnosis and advanced surgical treatments can help epilepsy patients lead seizure-free lives - Apollo Hospitals expert calls for expanded awareness early referrals and dedicated CSR access fund to help drug resistant epilepsy patients overcome treatment barriers ...

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 ...

Can Neurofeedback Effectively Treat ADHD? - Neurofeedback training is an alternative therapy that uses real-time EEG data to help patients train their brains to improve focus, impulse control, and executive function. Since the 1970s, patients ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - Neurofeedback is a noninvasive form of therapy that trains the brain to improve various neurological issues, including chronic pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD. Using EEG to monitor real-time ...

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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 Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

Disrupted valine metabolism and SCPC-mediated neurological toxicity in ECHS1 deficiency - CONCLUSION: These studies demonstrate that accumulation of ECHS1D-specific valine intermediates, particularly SCPC, contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction and disease severity in ECHS1D. Dietary valine modulation during adolescence showed limited therapeutic benefit and induced broader metabolic perturbations, underscoring the need for improved therapeutic strategies.

Pharmacokinetic changes and seizure outcomes in pregnant women taking second-generation antiseizure medications - CONCLUSIONS: Our study revealed significant pharmacokinetic fluctuations of LEV and LTG in Chinese pregnant women. This highlights the necessity of early therapeutic drug monitoring for newer ASMs and dose adjustments to maintain blood concentrations near the non-pregnant baseline level in pregnant women with epilepsy.

Medically refractory epilepsy comorbid with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures and intellectual disability in a patient with balanced t(14;X) translocation: a case report - CONCLUSIONS: This case highlights the complex interplay between epilepsy, psychiatric comorbidities, and neurostimulation, as well as the potential genetic underpinnings of TRE. The association of balanced X-autosome translocations with intellectual disability and epilepsy suggests pathogenic disruption of neurodevelopmental genes influencing inhibitory signaling. Awareness of psychiatric risks...

Factors associated with quality of life among adolescents with epilepsy: a cross-sectional study using the QOLIE-AD-48 questionnaire - CONCLUSION: The QOL of adolescents with epilepsy was significantly influenced by demographic and clinical variables. These findings emphasize that comprehensive epilepsy management must extend beyond seizure control to address broader aspects of patient well-being.

Evaluation of the management of patients with suspected epileptic seizures in emergency departments: The EPI-Lepsie study - CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that a substantial proportion of epilepsy-related ED admissions do not require hospitalisation. Improving access to EEG and neurological consultation, combined with standardised risk-stratification pathways for patients with known epilepsy, could meaningfully reduce avoidable admissions and enhance continuity of care.

STRADA deficiency impairs cortical interneuron development in humans and mice - Polyhydramnios, Megalencephaly, and Symptomatic Epilepsy syndrome (PMSE/STRADA-related disease) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by megalencephaly, early-onset drug-resistant epilepsy, neurocognitive impairment, and high early mortality, often due to status epilepticus. PMSE is caused by a multiexon deletion in the STRADA/LYK5 gene, encoding STRADA protein, which regulates th...

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.