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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 ...

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 ...

High Retention, Seizure-Freedom Rates for Perampanel in Epilepsy - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ―The retention rate for the antiseizure drug perampanel (Eisai Co, Ltd) is more than 70% for adult patients with epilepsy, new research shows. In early results from the PERPRISE ...

Teacher with Epilepsy from Viral Seizure Video Shares Advice for Others Navigating Chronic Illness at Work (Exclusive) - For Yareli Jessica Gijon, one of the biggest lessons she’s learned while living with epilepsy is that asking for help is not a weakness. The 33-year-old California teacher, who recently went viral ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...

Joey's Seizure - No abstract

Antipsychotics and Seizure Risk in Patients with Brain Tumors: Mechanisms, Modifiers, and Clinical Insights - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Neuropsychiatric symptoms including agitation, delirium, and psychosis are common in patients with primary or metastatic brain tumors and frequently necessitate antipsychotic treatment. Brain tumors create a hyperexcitable cortical environment characterized by glutamatergic excess, impaired inhibitory signaling, peritumoral edema, network disruption, and treatment-related neu...

Reviewer Comment on Sharma et al. "Effect of Concurrent Anti-Seizure Medications on the Efficacy of the Ketogenic Diet in Children with Epilepsy" - No abstract

Circadian Disruption Promotes Epileptic Seizures via the Ruminococcus gnavus-Arginine-NOX4-Ferroptosis Axis - Circadian rhythm disruption (CRD) exacerbates epileptic seizures, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Using a pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) kindling rat model combined with continuous light exposure, we found that CRD significantly shortened seizure latency and increased seizure frequency. 16S rRNA sequencing revealed that CRD substantially increased the abundance of Ruminococcus ...

Todd's Paralysis Simulating Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Case Report - Todd's paralysis is a transient focal neurological deficit following epileptic seizures that may closely mimic an acute ischemic stroke, posing a diagnostic challenge in the emergency department. We report the case of a 32-year-old woman with a history of epilepsy who presented with persistent expressive aphasia and right hemiparesis after experiencing multiple generalized tonic-clonic seizures...

Following Severe Pediatric Malaria, Epilepsy Screening Is Needed Even Among Children Without Coma: Findings From a Prospective Cohort Study - CONCLUSIONS: CNS-M presentation was twice as frequent as CM at this district hospital. Quantitative EEG supports CM as a more severe acute illness, but PME developed in 15-20% of children within one year regardless of malarial coma. These findings suggest that severe malaria with neurologic involvement-regardless of coma during acute presentation-has significant secondary epilepsy risk.

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.