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Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

What to know about epilepsy and seizure first aid - November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. Many people may already be aware of the condition from its prevalence in medical dramas, but that portrayal is often exaggerated and does not fully encapsulate ...

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 ...

First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model expedites access to specialists after a first seizure. The mean time between the referral and the ...

Understanding epilepsy: Seven ways to respond to an epileptic seizure - At the forefront of epilepsy research and treatment is the University of Alabama at Birmingham Epilepsy Center, a collaborative initiative between the UAB Department of Neurology and UAB Hospital, ...

Why Early Detection of Seizures and Epilepsy Is so Important - For parents, a child having a seizure is one of the most frightening experiences imaginable. While many childhood seizures are brief and isolated, others are more serious and persistent. To make the ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - 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 hand, the kind you could use to tote a dirty bomb.

Neurofeedback game helps patients with MS manage fatigue - A compassionate neurofeedback game that can identify fatigue aims to help patients with MS, according to a poster presented at Cedars-Sinai’s eighth annual iteration of its Virtual Medicine Conference ...

Excellent Brain Ltd. Launches New Android Version for Neurofeedback for ADHD Platform - Founded in 2015 by entrepreneur Ofer A. Lidsky, Excellent Brain Ltd. has been at the forefront of integrating EEG signal processing with advanced neurofeedback techniques. The company's platform is ...

What is neurofeedback? Video game-like therapy being used to treat anxiety, ADHD and more - It’s like a gym for your brain. As issues like anxiety, depression and restless sleep have spiked during the pandemic, some people are turning to neurofeedback, a kind of gym for the brain. It’s a ...

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 ...

Circumstantial, but Compelling: Multimodal Phase 1 Data and the Seizure Onset Zone - No abstract

Antiseizure Networks - Epilepsy is increasingly recognized as a disorder of brain networks rather than a solely focal disease. Beyond the seizure focus, connected brain networks can exert inhibitory control over seizure initiation and propagation resulting in antiseizure effects. Here, we present data from animal and human studies on antiseizure networks and integrate recent results from lesion-, stimulation- and neu...

DNM1-related disorder is characterized by recurrent variants and phenotypic homogeneity - CONCLUSION: A harmonized cohort of individuals with DNM1 -related disorder was analyzed to define mutational hotspots and reveal novel genotype-phenotype correlations. Due to the homogeneous phenotype, disease mechanism, and high proportion of recurrent variants, DNM1 represents an attractive target for targeted therapy development.

Febrile Seizures in Children in a Low-Resource Setting: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study from Eastern Libya - CONCLUSION: In this hospital-based study from a resource-limited setting, FSs, predominantly simple FSs, were common among young children. A family history of epilepsy and elevated white blood cell counts were associated with complex FSs, highlighting the importance of risk stratification and context-appropriate management in low-resource health care environments.

Near-Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy Rescued by Bystander Use of an Automated External Defibrillator: A Case of Nonconvulsive Seizure - CONCLUSION: All healthcare providers caring for people with epilepsy should be aware of SUDEP to help prevent epilepsy-related deaths.

Surgical resection as salvage therapy for super-refractory status epilepticus: a report of two cases - CONCLUSION: Emergency epilepsy surgery may represent a life-saving therapeutic option for selected patients with SRSE and identifiable structural lesions. Our findings support the inclusion of surgical evaluation in SRSE treatment protocols when pharmacological interventions fail. Multimodal imaging and prompt surgical decision-making are crucial for successful outcomes.

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.