Epilepsy News

Many people have seizures. Here's why that doesn’t always mean epilepsy. - One of the most common causes of epilepsy is a structural brain abnormality. “Epilepsy can result from structural issues in the brain, such as brain tumors, brain injuries, brain infections or ...

A 3-year-old’s epilepsy care is uncertain due to UnitedHealth-Fairview dispute - With the giant Minnesota insurer and health system at an impasse, Parker McEnaney’s family fears her complex care will become more difficult.

Xenon to Present New Azetukalner OLE Study Data in Epilepsy at AES 2025 - Seven posters to be presented, including new X-TOLE OLE data supporting the ability to attain and regain extended periods of seizure freedom with ...

Health Beat: Treating epilepsy - Nearly three million Americans live with epilepsy. And for one-third of them, anti-seizure medications don't work.

Experts push epilepsy awareness during National Epilepsy Awareness Month - Each November, epilepsy advocates and medical professionals push to bring the conversation out of the shadows.

Praxis to present latest preclinical and clinical advancements across leading epilepsy portfolio at the 2025 American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting - The AES meeting is a cornerstone for the epilepsy community, bringing together science, clinical innovation, and patient advocacy,” said Steven Petrou, chief scientific officer and co-founder of ...

National Epilepsy Day 2025: The seizure myths putting lakhs of Indians at risk, says neurologist - Epilepsy remains widely misunderstood in India, with 2–5 lakh new cases yearly. Neurologist warns that myths delay treatment and stress that proper diagnosis, medication and awareness can help most ...

Insomnia Connects Sleep Traits and Epilepsy Risk - Mendelian randomization analyses link insomnia with higher generalized epilepsy risk, suggesting sleep traits as modifiable targets for seizure control and personalized epilepsy management strategies ...

Managing Epilepsy in Pregnancy: ASM Safety and Neurodevelopmental Risks - In honor of Epilepsy Awareness Month, experts highlight the importance of managing in utero exposure to anti-seizure medications during pregnancy.

Epilepsy and pregnancy: ‘In the delivery room, I handed her to my husband and I immediately took a seizure’ - By the time she and her husband, Owen, were expecting their first child in 2002, she had had several more seizures. But there was little talk about her epilepsy as she navigated the maternity system.

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 ...

How Neurofeedback Can Help Troubled Couples Get Back on the Same Wavelength - Dr. David Helfand (left) with a patient. The cap contains 19 electrodes that measure the brain’s electrical activity. Credit: Courtesy When a 10-year romantic relationship ended last spring for ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - When I was a child, my mother suffered from horrible migraine headaches. Sometimes they were so bad that she’d have to close herself up in her bedroom for days with the shades drawn. Traditional pain ...

Neurofeedback may ease pain of chemotherapy-induced neuropathy - Functional brain training, known as neurofeedback, effectively reduced symptoms associated with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, according to a randomized pilot study published in Cancer.

Betsy DeVos backs a technique claiming to cure ADHD without medication — but the science is questionable - Every time Erin publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox! Enter your email By clicking “Sign up”, you agree to receive emails from Business ...

Functional consequence of pathogenic GABRA3 variants determines whether X-linked inheritance is dominant or recessive - Disorders of GABRA3, the only epilepsy-associated GABA-A receptor subunit gene on the X chromosome, have eluded clinical clarity due to ambiguous inheritance patterns and variable phenotypes. The long-standing assumption that all pathogenic variants cause loss-of-function further obscured genotype-phenotype relationships and hindered progress. Here, we curated a cohort of individuals with a GAB...

Diagnostic accuracy of brain perfusion SPECT parameters for seizure onset zone localization in drug-resistant epilepsy - No abstract

Will Memantine Exacerbate Seizures in People With Epilepsy? A Prospective Cohort Study - OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether add-on memantine would exacerbate seizures in people with epilepsy.

Safety and Efficacy of Eslicarbazepine Acetate in Children Diagnosed With a Focal Seizure Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - CONCLUSION: Though ESL increases the risk of adverse effects, it dramatically reduces seizure frequency in children with focal epilepsy. These risks require regular monitoring. Subsequent study should focus on long-term effectiveness, safety, and ways to mitigate the negative effects of ESL.

Permethrin induces epileptic susceptibility via activation of Na+ channels and rise in glutamate - Permethrin, a common pyrethroid insecticide, is extensively used to control insect pests and has been widely detected in the environment. A growing body of epidemiological studies has revealed a substantial increase in the prevalence of epilepsy among individuals highly exposed to pesticides. However, the mechanism of action of permethrin in epilepsy remains elusive. In this study, we investiga...

Neonatal seizure detection from EEG using inception ResNetV2 feature extraction and XGBoost optimized with particle swarm optimization - Neonatal seizure detection is crucial for preventing neurological damage, as these seizures are linked to abnormal brain activity. While machine learning and deep learning show promise for EEG analysis, persistent challenges remain, including signal non-stationarity, class imbalance, and limited interpretability. We propose a hybrid deep framework for early neonatal seizure detection. The metho...

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.