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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: 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 ...

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 ...

Patients engage with epilepsy monitor in real time, improving seizure detection - A team has built an AI-based interface that enables real-time communication between patients and epilepsy monitoring devices. As part of a small clinical study at the University of Pennsylvania in ...

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 ...

Knowledge and attitudes toward epilepsy among medical students and internship doctors: a multinational cross-sectional study in Syria, Jordan, Palestine, and Libya - CONCLUSION: The findings indicate a generally favorable level of awareness and knowledge of epilepsy among medical students. However, educational gaps regarding epilepsy treatment and persistence of misconceptions emphasize the importance of revising curricula and establishing comprehensive, advanced training programs.

Resting-state fMRI biomarkers of surgical outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy: Network reorganization, rsfMRI-based prediction models, and cognition - A systematic review - Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a network disorder extending beyond the structurally defined epileptogenic zone. Resting-state functional MRI (rsfMRI) may provide information on brain network alterations relevant to seizure outcome and cognitive risk after epilepsy surgery. We reviewed rsfMRI studies in TLE surgical cohorts to evaluate postoperative network changes, preoperative predictors of s...

Intrinsic and extrinsic connectivity of the seizure onset zone at rest and during stimulation - BACKGROUND: About half of patients who undergo epilepsy surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy have seizure recurrence, supporting the need for approaches that more accurately identify the epileptogenic zone, defined as the brain areas whose removal causes cessation of seizures. Altered network connectivity has emerged as a candidate biomarker of the epileptogenic zone, but how connectivity is alt...

Postoperative Complications Following Shoulder Stabilization for Primary Versus Recurrent Anterior Shoulder Dislocation: A National Database Study - CONCLUSION: Patients undergoing surgical repair for recurrent ASD experienced significantly higher short-term rates of recurrent instability compared to those treated for primary ASD. Elevated BMI and seizure disorders were identified as independent risk factors associated with postoperative instability. These findings should be interpreted as associative and hypothesis-generating. Prospective ...

Caregiver experience of diazepam nasal spray treatment in children aged 2-5 years - CONCLUSION: Caregivers of CWE aged 2-5 years treated with diazepam nasal spray reported improvement in seizure episodes and daily function, reinforcing the value of appropriate treatment.

Physical exercise as an adjunct to the pharmacological treatment of epilepsy: a priority for future research - Medication adherence is a major determinant of seizure control in people with epilepsy, yet nonadherence remains frequent and is associated with breakthrough seizures, increased healthcare utilization, and higher mortality. Despite the central role of antiseizure medications (ASMs), adherence is a multifactorial behavior shaped by routine stability, health beliefs, self-efficacy, mood, and soci...

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.