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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 ...

Study: Epilepsy patients benefit from structured 'seizure action plans' - A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status. These ...

Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy, so it is a relatively common diagnosis. In fact, it is the fourth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention - You sit in a chair, facing a computer screen, while a clinician sticks electrodes to your scalp with a viscous goop that takes days to wash out of your hair. Wires from the sensors connect to a ...

Closed-loop neurofeedback reshapes preparatory brain states to bias subsequent pain processing - EEG neurofeedback as a method to modulate brain activity prior to painful stimulation and examined its effect on pain perception in a well-powered, double-blind study. Results showed that real, but ...

Effects of carbamazepine and phenytoin in Krushinsky-Molodkina rats: further validation of the audiogenic kindling model of epilepsy - In the present study, we evaluated the effects of the clinically approved anti-seizure medications (ASMs) carbamazepine (CBZ) and phenytoin (PHT) on brainstem audiogenic seizures (AGS) and limbic seizures in Krushinsky-Molodkina (KM) audiogenic rats. In order to analyze the effects of ASMs on the standard AGS, KM rats received single intraperitoneal injection of CBZ (50 mg/kg), PHT (25 mg/kg), ...

Epi-Spec2State: Convolutional state space model via spectrogram image sequences for prediction-oriented seizure state classification in EEG signals - CONCLUSION: The proposed Epi-Spec2State can effectively capture the complex spatiotemporal dependencies in EEG signals. Its ability to handle diverse EEG types highlights its potential to support seizure state analysis and pre-seizure warning in clinical practice.

Cenobamate and Trazodone Combination Suppresses Seizures, EEG Alterations, Preserves Neuronal Architecture and Normalizes the BDNF/TrkB Expression in PTZ-Kindled Mice - Polytherapy is increasingly needed to overcome the limitations of monotherapy in epilepsy and its comorbidities. Therefore, we investigated the effect of cenobamate (CNB, 30 mg/kg) and trazodone (TZ, 10 mg/kg), alone and in combination, in PTZ-kindling model, where mice received 11 doses of pentylenetetrazole (PTZ, 40 mg/kg) every other day for three weeks. Behavioral seizure scoring, electroen...

A Young Child With Global Developmental Delay and Epilepsy Secondary to a Novel Variant of KBG Syndrome - KBG syndrome is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by changes in the ANKRD11 gene (ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein 11). It is typically inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. This syndrome is characterized by a distinct constellation of clinical findings, including short stature, distinctive craniofacial manifestations, skeletal abnormalities, and abnormal patterns of hair ...

Neuromodulation by electrical stimulation timing during picture naming task based on high gamma dynamics - CONCLUSIONS: A strong relationship exists between the HGA and the ECS-timing. Short ECS disrupts brain functions and networks when appropriately aligned with the HGA. Combining HGA dynamics with ECS reveals the functional distribution and physiological dynamics during naming tasks.

Machine learning-based lateralization and localization of seizure onset in focal cortical dysplasia patients using ictal scalp EEG - INRODUCTION: This study aimed to develop and evaluate a machine learning framework for classifying seizure onset zone lateralization and localization in patients with focal cortical dysplasia using ictal scalp electroencephalography (EEG).

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.