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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 ...

Neurofeedback gets you back in the zone - Researchers have shown -- for the first time -- that they can use online neurofeedback to modify an individual's arousal state to improve performance in a demanding sensory motor task, such as flying ...

Understanding The Role Of Neurofeedback Technology In Addressing ADHD - Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent challenge in today's educational and professional landscapes. Most of us are familiar with ADHD, either ...

Neurofeedback is the newest mental health hack among entrepreneurs. Here’s why - Running a business can be an exhilarating and rewarding journey, but it can also bring a unique set of stressors. While the beginning stages of a business can be exciting and feel full of ...

Thalamic interictal epileptic and non-epileptic events during NREM sleep in patients with focal epilepsy: a Stereo-EEG study - BACKGROUND: Thalamic recordings are increasingly incorporated into stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) evaluations of drug-resistant focal epilepsy to guide neuromodulation targeting. Human thalamic electrophysiology, however, is poorly defined, limiting the distinction between pathological and physiological activity. Here, we characterised interictal epileptic and non-epileptic events during ...

The TeleEPI Feasibility Study - CONCLUSION: We expect to gain valuable insights into the feasibility and clinical utility of telemedicine in the care of epilepsy patients through both the TeleEPI project and clinical study.

Exploring human GABA transporter 3 binders for epilepsy through quantum reactivity analysis, molecular dynamics, machine learning prediction, and network pharmacology - CONTEXT: Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) remains a major therapeutic challenge, affecting millions of patients globally who do not respond to conventional antiepileptic medications. Recent evidence highlights GABA transporter 3 (GAT3), a glial subtype responsible for regulating extracellular GABA levels, as a promising molecular target for seizure control. Despite its therapeutic potential, selec...

A Brain-Permeable Selenocyanate Near-Infrared (NIR) Probe Platform for H2S Dynamics Imaging: Insights into Redox Homeostasis and Antiepileptic Therapy - The spatiotemporal dynamics of hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) in the living brain remain elusive, primarily due to the lack of molecular probes that can concurrently resist biothiol interference, cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB), and yield reliable in vivo signals.This work presents a selenocyanate-based sensing trigger relying on a specific H(2)S-initiated cascade cyclization that exhibits superi...

Effectiveness and safety of implantable vagus nerve stimulation in people with primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures - OBJECTIVE: Most therapies for drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) focus on focal-onset seizures, the most common seizure types. Studying primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures (PGTCS) is more challenging due to diagnostic and recruitment difficulties. While vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy is globally established in DRE with focal-onset seizures, approved indications vary by region. This stud...

Integrating Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Metabolomics to Explore Interindividual Variability in Lamotrigine Response in Epilepsy - CONCLUSION: Higher LTG plasma concentrations were associated with better seizure control, and VPA co‑administration enhances LTG exposure and efficacy. The distinct amino acid profile in high-concentration responders suggests amino acid metabolism and redox balance may modulate LTG efficacy.

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.