Epilepsy News

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Stress as a Seizure Trigger - New evidence supports previous data indicating that stress is a significant trigger of seizures in people with epilepsy. Experts encourage the use of stress management strategies as adjunctive care ...

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 ...

Seizure or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A seizure is a sudden electrical disturbance in the brain that may occur due to triggers like fever or injury and can be a one-time event. Epilepsy is a chronic condition involving recurrent, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seizure freedom as a transitional phase of recovery: rethinking the burden of normality in epilepsy integrating medical and lived perspectives in post-remission care - No abstract

Vertical Digitation of the Hippocampus: An Intraventricular Landmark for Amygdalohippocampectomies - CONCLUSION: Our findings support the VDH as a practical anatomic reference for ensuring complete and safe anteromedial temporal resection. This landmark enhances surgical precision, particularly in cases where traditional references are inadequate, and improves the reproducibility of amygdalohippocampectomy techniques.

Seizure freedom on subtherapeutic levels of valproic acid - Valproic acid (VPA) is a well-established antiseizure medication typically prescribed to maintain serum levels between 50 and 100 μg/mL. This case report presents a 25-year-old male with idiopathic generalized epilepsy who achieved long-term seizure freedom while on significantly subtherapeutic VPA levels. The patient initially maintained seizure control on a 750 mg once-daily regimen, with a m...

Glymphatic System Dysfunction in Epilepsy: Clinical and Translational Perspectives - Epilepsy has traditionally been viewed as a disorder involving neuronal hyperexcitability and brain network dysfunction. However, growing evidence indicates that recurrent seizures are associated with widespread disturbances in brain homeostasis, including metabolic stress, neuroinflammation, vascular dysregulation, and sleep disruption. These processes extend beyond neurons and involve brain-w...

Diagnostic Dilemma in an Infant With Sound-Triggered Motor Events: Reflex Epilepsy Versus Exaggerated Startle-A Case Report - Auditory-triggered motor events in infancy present a significant diagnostic challenge due to overlap between epileptic and non-epileptic startle phenomena. We report the case of a term female infant with neonatal-onset seizures and subsequent development of reproducible sound-triggered jerky movements, raising diagnostic uncertainty between exaggerated startle reflex and reflex auditory epileps...

Ultra-rapid prolactin normalization with cabergoline in a premenopausal woman with epilepsy and giant prolactinoma - Giant prolactinomas are rare pituitary tumors characterized by extremely high prolactin levels and extensive extrasellar invasion. While dopamine agonists are usually effective, they may require months to normalize prolactin. We report a 47-year-old premenopausal woman presenting with new-onset temporal epilepsy and secondary amenorrhea. Assessments revealed marked hyperprolactinemia (mean seru...

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.