Epilepsy News

Frequent Cannabis Use Tied to Greater Seizure Burden in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - Frequent cannabis users with drug-resistant epilepsy have more convulsive seizures and require more antiseizure medications, but researchers caution that the findings do not establish causation.

Frequent cannabis users developed drug-resistant epilepsy 13 years earlier than non-users: study - A recent study published in 'Epilepsia' has found link between frequent recreational cannabis use and worsening seizures in patients with epilepsy.

Frequent cannabis use tied to more severe epilepsy - Adults with hard-to-treat epilepsy who used cannabis most days had more than twice as many convulsive seizures per year and became resistant to antiseizure medications more quickly than nonusers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

Every seizure can look and feel very different: NMU holds presentation on epilepsy and seizure training - The presentation hopes to clear up misconceptions regarding epilepsy and seizures as well as how to help those in need.

Does Levetiracetam Improve Seizure Outcomes in Pediatric Epilepsy? - Although levetiracetam was associated with improved seizure outcomes compared with placebo in pediatric epilepsy, it did not demonstrate superior efficacy when compared with established active ...

Excellent Brain Partners with Scholas Occurrentes to Bring ADHD Neurofeedback Training to Schools and Universities Worldwide - Founded in 2015 and based in Israel, Excellent Brain Ltd. develops neurofeedback-based brain-training technology designed to support attention and focus. Its Trainer Kit, is used by clinics, schools, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Novel neurofeedback technique enhances awareness of mind-wandering - Everyone knows the feeling. You are trying to concentrate on driving or studying, or paying attention in a boring meeting, but suddenly, you realize that you are thinking about something irrelevant to ...

Frequency of seizures in post-cerebrovascular accident patients - CONCLUSION: Seizures developed in over half of the stroke patients, and a late-onset pattern was more common. Cortical and posterior cerebral artery involvement showed the strongest association with seizures, and anterior cerebral artery involvement was an independent predictor of seizure occurrence.

How to Recognize and Manage Missing Key Electrodes in Defining the Epileptogenic Zone - Identifying and localizing the epileptogenic zone (EZ) is the cornerstone of successful epilepsy surgery, as it directly determines surgical efficacy and patient outcomes. Stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) has emerged as a transformative tool for pinpointing the EZ, offering precise 3-dimensional recordings of seizure activity in individual patients. SEEG does not begin with electrode implant...

Identification of a Novel homozygous Splice-Site Deletion in KCTD7 Gene Associated with Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy - CONCLUSION: The mutation is not reported in the literature yet; the particular phenotype that was observed in our patient is comparable to the ones that are described in the KCTD7 related pathologies, combined with segregation analysis indicating both parents carried the variant heterogeneously present is a strong indication that the identified mutation consists of probably pathogenic mutation....

Structural Brain Networks and the Seizure-Survival Paradox in Glioblastoma - CONCLUSIONS: Structural connectivity may partially mediate the seizure-survival association, suggesting preserved network architecture may contribute to longer survival in glioblastoma patients with TRE, though most of the effect operates through other pathways.

Structural Determinants of Synaptic Vesicle Protein 2C Ligand Selectivity and Their Impact on Dopamine Release - The synaptic vesicle protein 2 (SV2) family is a highly conserved group of transmembrane glycoproteins sharing approximately 70% sequence identity. SV2A and SV2B are broadly distributed throughout the brain, while SV2C, the evolutionarily oldest member of the family, is primarily found in dopaminergic brain regions in the basal ganglia. Genome-wide association studies have linked SV2C to Parkin...

Epilepsy as a Contributing Cause of Death Among Malignant Brain Tumour Patients in the United States, 1999-2024: A Multiple-Cause CDC WONDER Joinpoint Analysis with Relevance to the Epilepsy Treatm... - CONCLUSIONS: Epilepsy was increasingly documented as a contributing cause of death among malignant brain tumour decedents in the United States over the 25-year study period, reflecting a persistent seizure burden in neuro-oncology. This reproducible population-based surveillance approach may help characterize epilepsy-related mortality and inform neuro-oncology surveillance strategies in countr...

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.