Epilepsy News

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Elite athletes enhance their performance with 'neurofeedback'—and you can get a device for $99 - When you think of the training tools that professional athletes have at their disposal, high-tech sports equipment and state-of-the-art athletic facilities come to mind. But training for peak ...

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 ...

Genotype-phenotype correlations and clinical spectrum of ALG13-related developmental epileptic encephalopathy - CONCLUSIONS: This pooled analysis delineates the phenotypic spectrum of ALG13-related epilepsy and emphasizes the prominence of the N107S hotspot variant. Earlier seizure onset is associated with more severe neurodevelopmental outcomes. These findings refine the genotype-phenotype spectrum of ALG13-related disease and support early genetic testing and standardized long-term follow-up.

Semiological features of epilepsy seizures and paroxysmal non-epileptic events in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis - No abstract

Psychological stress during wartime and its association with seizure-related emergency department utilization - OBJECTIVE: Psychological stress is commonly reported as a seizure precipitant in epilepsy, yet evidence from major crises remains limited and inconsistent. We examined whether the October 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict affected acute seizure-related healthcare utilization among adults with epilepsy.

"Un chapeau" can fit many different heads - A clinical vignette for CASPR2 autoimmune encephalitis - No abstract

WONOEP appraisal: Biomarkers and treatment strategies beyond the synapse - Epilepsy is a heterogeneous neurological disorder affecting more than 70 million people worldwide, posing significant challenges for clinicians due to its complex etiology, diverse manifestations, variable treatment responses, and the inability to predict seizures or disease onset reliably. Despite advances in antiseizure medications, approximately 30% of patients remain treatment-resistant, hi...

Peripheral inflammatory markers and metabolic profiles in temporal lobe epilepsy and functional dissociative seizures - CONCLUSION: After controlling for age, sex, and BMI, metabolic markers-particularly leptin and adiponectin-remained independently associated with diagnostic group, whereas inflammatory cytokines did not demonstrate robust independent differences. These findings suggest that metabolic dysregulation may represent a more prominent differentiating factor than systemic inflammation among patients wi...

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.