Epilepsy News

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 ...

Every seizure can look and feel very different: NMU holds presentation on epilepsy and seizure training - The presentation hopes to clear up misconceptions regarding epilepsy and seizures as well as how to help those in need.

Development and psychometric validation of a screening tool of psychosocial risk factors in patients with epilepsy: the ARisE study protocol - Introduction Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological chronic diseases worldwide. While medications can control seizures, about one-third of people with epilepsy have drug-resistant epilepsy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michigan Epilepsy Foundation to host seizure recognition training - On Wednesday’s TV6 Morning News, Shannon Waid and Renee Roederer with the Michigan Epilepsy Foundation joined Molly Birch to explain how you can participate.

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that the memory-forming stage of sleep could be key for understanding epileptic seizures. . | Credit: ...

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 ...

Camelback Recovery Launches Neurofeedback Therapy at Its Phoenix Treatment Center - Camelback Recovery has launched neurofeedback therapy at its Phoenix treatment center, expanding the care options available within its mental health and addiction programs. Phoenix, Arizona--(Newsfile ...

Novel neurofeedback technique enhances awareness of mind-wandering - Everyone knows the feeling. You are trying to concentrate on driving or studying, or paying attention in a boring meeting, but suddenly, you realize that you are thinking about something irrelevant to ...

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 ...

Testing a brain training device for better focus sleep and relaxation - A detailed review of a neurofeedback headband exploring how brain training technology works and the creator’s experience using it for focus relaxation sleep and mental performance. #Neurofeedback #Men ...

How virtual reality is changing brain-training technology - Integrating virtual reality into brain-training therapies can make the experience more enjoyable and engaging for users. A recent review published in the journal Applied Psychophysiology and ...

Utility of the APE2 Score as a Diagnostic Tool for Autoimmune Encephalitis - OBJECTIVE: To retrospectively evaluate the diagnostic performance of the Antibody Prevalence in Epilepsy and Encephalopathy (APE²) score relative to clinician-adjudicated autoimmune encephalitis (AE) and the Graus criteria in a tertiary neuroimmunology referral cohort, including antibody-negative AE.

Alpk1 activates JAK2/STAT3 signaling to enhance M1-microglial activation in epileptic rats - CONCLUSION: ALPK1 is highly expressed in epileptic microglia. Silencing Alpk1 alleviates M1-microglial activation and inflammation in epilepsy by inhibiting the JAK2/STAT3 signaling.

Tear fluid CGRP changes in epilepsy - evidence from an exploratory pilot study - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Epilepsy and migraine share pathophysiological and clinical features. While calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a central player in migraine pathophysiology, it has also been identified in cortical neurons, making CGRP a plausible modulator of cortical excitability. This exploratory trial aimed to investigate whether CGRP levels change following unprovoked seizu...

Erratum for the Research Article "Beyond seizure control: Identifying deficits in cognitive networks in absence epilepsy" by G. Vantomme et al - No abstract

Seizure Disorders in Adults: Primary Care for Patients With Epilepsy - Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in US men. Guidelines for screening vary, underscoring the need to engage patients in shared decision-making and counsel them about potential benefits and harms. When screening is undertaken, it is based on the prostate-specific antigen test, with digital rectal examination used selectively as an adjunct. Men with an abnormal prostate-specific an...

Seizure Disorders in Adults: Principles of Treatment of Epilepsy - Male fertility concerns include prevention of pregnancy and planning for conception, including management of infertility. Male-directed contraception is currently limited to condom use or vasectomy. Vasectomy is a safe, office-based procedure that reliably results in sterility. Several options for reversible male contraception are currently under investigation. Use of high-dose testosterone wit...

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.