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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 ...

The Campaign for a National Plan for Epilepsy Needs Your Help - A future neurologist appeals for your support for the National Plan for Epilepsy to coordinate research and care to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, and hopefully a cure.

Seizure action plans: More than management tools for epilepsy - Newswise — 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 ...

Using Seizure-Risk Forecasts to ID Best Time for Epilepsy Monitoring - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― Scheduling video-electroencephalography (vEEG) monitoring on the basis of personalized seizure risk forecasts may improve diagnostic accuracy, emerging research suggests. In a ...

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 ...

Does Levetiracetam Improve Seizure Outcomes in Pediatric Epilepsy? - Although levetiracetam was associated with improved seizure outcomes compared with placebo in pediatric epilepsy, it did not demonstrate superior efficacy when compared with established active ...

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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 ...

Freedom Neurofeedback Services Shares Free Tools for Planning Home Neurofeedback Rentals - Printable questions, device comparisons and a household calendar help readers organize the practical details of a ...

What Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

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 ...

After the Spasms: Long-Term Outcomes Following Pulsatile Dexamethasone Therapy for Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome: A Retrospective Observational Study - CONCLUSIONS: Pulsatile dexamethasone for IESS treatment shows long-term outcomes comparable with other corticosteroids; patients achieving seizure freedom in the examined population received 4-7 pulses. Majority of seizure relapses occur within the first year after therapy, highlighting the importance of close follow-up, and early relapse in structural IESS may warrant prompt referral for epile...

Impact of Epileptiform Abnormalities on Functional Phenotype in a Cohort of Autism Spectrum Disorder Patients With or Without Epilepsy: A Monocentric Retrospective Study - CONCLUSION: These findings highlight the potential influence of epileptiform activity on cognitive and behavioral outcomes in ASD. Further longitudinal research is warranted to elucidate the prognostic implications of EAs in ASD and better characterize its impact on functional profile.

The ongoing dilemma of immunotherapy in antibody-negative suspected autoimmune encephalitis-associated epilepsy: A retrospective cohort study - OBJECTIVES: This study evaluates immunotherapy in drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) patients with concern for autoimmune encephalitis-associated epilepsy (AEAE) but negative neural antibody testing (-Ab).

Beyond Seizure Suppression: Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester and 10-Hydroxy-2-Decenoic Acid Improve Anxiety-like and Cognitive Behaviors in PTZ-Challenged Zebrafish - Epilepsy is associated with recurrent seizures and behavioral and cognitive disturbances, highlighting the importance of assessing behavioral outcomes alongside seizure severity. Caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) has shown neuroprotective activity, whereas evidence for the neurobehavioral effects of 10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid (10-HDA) remains limited. This study investigated their individual ...

How to Implement a Ketogenic Diet Therapy in Developing Countries: Colombian Consensus on Ketogenic Diet Therapy Use in the Management of Adults with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - CONCLUSIONS: Evidence around KDT shows it can be implemented safely as an adjunctive treatment for adults with drug-resistant epilepsy and is reasonable to consider following the failure of two adequate antiseizure medications. Structured implementation may reduce seizure frequency, improve quality of life, and reduce the pharmacological burden. Multicenter prospective studies are needed to fur...

Harnessing Neurogenic Potential of Glial Cell Types as an Emerging Strategy for Treating Epilepsy - In every third case of epilepsy, anti-seizure drugs are ineffective, so the search for new therapies for this disease is ongoing. In recent years, new methods for generating cells with desired properties, as well as for the targeted expression of genes in specific cell types in situ within the brain, were designed. These methods allowed researchers to consider the idea of transforming resident ...

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.