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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 ...

People with focal epilepsy often have seizures while driving before a diagnosis - Prior to being diagnosed with epilepsy, 5% of people with a type of epilepsy called focal epilepsy had a seizure while driving, according to a new study published in the June 7, 2023, online issue of ...

Study: Epilepsy patients benefit from structured 'seizure action plans' - A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status. These ...

Living well with epilepsy: A diagnosis is not the end of the story - Over the past two weeks, we have explored what seizures and epilepsy are, corrected common myths, discussed seizure first aid, and examined the emotional, psychological, and cognitive challenges that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elite athletes enhance their performance with 'neurofeedback'—and you can get a device for $99 - When you think of the training tools that professional athletes have at their disposal, high-tech sports equipment and state-of-the-art athletic facilities come to mind. But training for peak ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback learning modifies the incidence rate of alpha spindles, but not their duration and amplitude - Neurofeedback is a form of biofeedback, which allows subjects to observe and ultimately gain volitional control over their own brain activity. Neurofeedback settings involve recording of neural ...

Metabolic constraints shape hypersynchronous dynamics in spiking cortical microcircuit models - Neuronal activity depends on ATP-consuming ion homeostasis, yet the circuit-level consequences of impaired energy availability remain difficult to isolate experimentally. Existing seizure models often represent metabolic effects indirectly or at single-cell scale, leaving unclear how cellular energetic stress can alter structured cortical network dynamics. Here, we tested whether coupling intra...

NMDAR-antibody encephalitis: Seizure semiology and EEG findings - BACKGROUND: N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibody encephalitis (NMDAR-Ab-E) is an autoantibody-mediated disorder, characterized by acute development of neuropsychiatric symptoms, seizures, movement disorders, and autonomic instability.

Sexual and reproductive health information needs of young adults with chronic conditions: a scoping review protocol - OBJECTIVE: This scoping review aims to identify, map, and synthesize evidence on the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information needs of youth 15-24 years living with epilepsy, congenital heart disease (CHD), or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the USA and Canada, and identify barriers and facilitators to access to SRH information and services.

Intraventricular schwannoma presenting with memory impairment and full neurological recovery after surgical resection: a case report - CONCLUSIONS: This case highlights the exceptional rarity of intraventricular schwannomas and demonstrates that isolated transient memory impairment may represent an atypical presenting manifestation. Complete microsurgical excision remains the treatment of choice and is associated with excellent neurological outcomes. Awareness of this rare diagnosis may facilitate earlier recognition and appro...

Resection plus stereotactic radiosurgery versus stereotactic radiosurgery alone and control of brain metastasis-induced seizures - CONCLUSIONS: Patients treated with S+SRS experienced fewer posttreatment seizures at 6 months than patients treated with SRS, despite larger index lesions in patients treated with S+SRS and prevalent antiseizure medication use in the entire study population. Although multivariable models showed no significant associations at 12 months or beyond, the role of resection in controlling BrM-induced ...

Efficacy and Safety of Perampanel in Patients With Brain Tumor-Related Epilepsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Epileptic seizures are a common and often debilitating complication in patients with brain tumors, significantly affecting quality of life and clinical outcomes. Brain tumor-related epilepsy (BTRE) is characterized by complex pathophysiologic mechanisms, notably glutamate-mediated neuronal hyperexcitability within the peritumoral environment. Perampanel, a selective, noncompe...

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.