Epilepsy News

Supporting someone with epilepsy: How you can help during a seizure | Health Smart - "First thing is safety. Lower them to the ground, turn them to the side so they don't choke and time the seizure. If it goes beyond 3 to 4 minutes, call 911 immediately and don’t put anything in the ...

Want Good Info on Epilepsy Treatment? Don't Ask Dr. TikTok - "These findings are a reminder that people with epilepsy are searching for answers in online spaces every day," said Douglas Nordli III, MD, of the University of Chicago, a co-author of the TikTok ...

Promising Long-Term Results for Novel Antiseizure Medication for Resistant Epilepsy - A novel Kv7 potassium channel opener, may offer a unique treatment option for patients with resistant focal onset seizures.

Refractory Epilepsy Treatment: Transforming Healthcare with Personalized Therapy - A Leap Towards Personalized HealthcareRefractory Epilepsy Treatment is revolutionizing healthcare by utilizing clinical, molecular, and lifestyle data to deliver personalized therapies. Moving beyond ...

Experts warn TikTok epilepsy care videos can be misleading - Fake clickbait TikTok videos about epilepsy treatments are receiving more views than accurate, evidence-based offerings, a new study says.

Epilepsy awareness in the workplace: training and safety tips - More than 35,000 Long Islanders live with epilepsy. Experts urge businesses to provide seizure training, safety plans, and awareness to protect employees and customers.

GLP-1s Linked to Better Seizure Control in Epilepsy - GLP-1s are linked to lower seizure recurrence, hospitalization, and mortality risk than other glucose-lowering drugs in adults with epilepsy, new research shows.

First seizure clinic speeds time to diagnosis with pediatric epilepsy - Children referred to a first seizure clinic (FSC) see a neurologist epilepsy specialist within one week, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, held ...

Teen seizure-free after two brain surgeries, returns to cheer team - Kaylee Hill, diagnosed with epilepsy before high school, is now seizure-free after advanced mapping technology guided two successful surgeries.

Nerve Stimulation for Epilepsy: Intracranial Versus Extracranial Approaches Compared - But long-term mortality -- which her group considered a proxy for seizure control -- became substantially worse for patients treated with VNS compared with the intracranial implants, starting at about ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his hand, the kind you could use to tote a dirty bomb. Once inside my living room, he cracked open the case and removed a laptop, a ...

Mindmachines.com Unveils Advanced RoshiWave Mind Machine for Enhanced Mental Wellness Through Neurofeedback Technology - Mindmachines.com has introduced the third generation of its RoshiWave IN-SIGHT Mind Machine, a mental wellness device that employs Dynamic Neuro-Activation technology to help users achieve meditative ...

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 Anxiety - Chronic anxiety is the long-term negative psychological experience to environmental stressors, characterized by prolonged and inappropriately excessive worrying, fatigue, restlessness, concertation, ...

Cellist achieves optimal performance through neurofeedback - “Practice makes perfect,” the saying goes. Optimal performance, however, can require more than talent, effort, and repetition. Training the brain to reduce stress through neurofeedback can remove ...

Status Epilepticus Related to Maintenance Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Case Report and Brief Review of the Literature - Prolonged seizures (PS), tardive seizures (TS), and status epilepticus (SE) are rare but severe complications related to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Factors increasing the risk for these conditions and measures making ECT safe after PS, TS, and SE are insufficiently studied. Therefore, we report and discuss the case of a 43-year-old woman with recurrent major depressive disorder and a hist...

Neurostimulation in children with drug-resistant epilepsy: strategies in subcortical targeting and systematic review of the evidence - CONCLUSION: Stereotactic subcortical targeting in pediatric DRE achieves meaningful seizure reduction and responder rates, with acceptable safety. Direct and indirect targeting strategies must account for unique pediatric considerations. A practical tool for trajectory planning, imaging selection, and targeting methodology for DBS and RNS in children is provided.

Pyridoxine-Dependent Epilepsy in Newborn - A Rare and Challenging Diagnosis - Pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy (PDE) is a developmental, epileptic encephalopathy historically characterized by seizures that are resistant to the standard anti-seizure medications. The administration of pharmacological doses of pyridoxine (vitamin B6) often results in a dramatic clinical response, with many patients achieving complete seizure remission. However, a significant delay between seiz...

Exploring Disparities in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery - Background Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) impacts at least 30% of pediatric epilepsy patients, adversely affecting neurodevelopment and quality of life, as well as, risk of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP). While surgical intervention has proven to be an effective treatment for DRE, disparities in access to surgical care persist. Compared to adults, pediatric patients face unique cha...

Ultra-refractory epilepsy: The newly described entity - OBJECTIVE: Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) is defined as the failure of two antiseizure medications (ASMs) to achieve complete seizure control, affecting approximately 30% of epilepsy patients. In some cases, additional ASMs and surgical approaches are also unsuccessful. Ultra-Refractory Epilepsy (URE) is a newly described entity, characterized by the failure of six distinct epilepsy treatment st...

Can large language models aid pre-surgical epileptogenic zone localization? A multi-source text analysis performance study in drug-resistant epilepsy - Large language models (LLMs) show promise for biomedical text analysis, but their ability to localize the epileptogenic zone (EZ) from pre-surgical data is underexplored. We evaluated three leading LLMs on predicting the surgically validated EZ using multi-source unstructured clinical text from 154 patients (two cohorts) with drug-resistant epilepsy who achieved postoperative seizure freedom (E...

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.