Epilepsy News

Can ChatGPT replace your doctor? Why epilepsy patients should never alter medication on AI advice - AI can help patients understand medical terms and prepare questions for clinicians, but it should not replace professional advice on changing prescribed treatment.

31-Year-Old Woman Reduced Epilepsy Medication After ChatGPT Advice: Report Links Case to Her Death - Bowen Wan's parents are suing OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT helped her taper off epilepsy medication before her death. Her postmortem tests showed very low lamotrigine levels.

Woman Dies After ChatGPT Allegedly Tells Her to Stop Taking Epilepsy Medication: Lawsuit - Bowen Wan’s family has filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT’s parent company, claiming the bot told her to taper off her epilepsy medication, which led to her death ...

Woman, 31, Dies After ChatGPT Allegedly Told Her to Change Dosing Of Seizure Medication - OpenAI faces a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging ChatGPT guided a user to taper seizure meds and hide the changes from her doctors.

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 ...

Can Neurofeedback Effectively Treat ADHD? - Neurofeedback training is an alternative therapy that uses real-time EEG data to help patients train their brains to improve focus, impulse control, and executive function. Since the 1970s, patients ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seizures, Sleep, and the Midnight Sun - The well-known bidirectional link between seizures and sleep may be most conspicuous in environments where the chief zeitgeber - sunlight - undergoes extreme but consistent changes over the course of a year. Routine circannual encounters with the midnight sun and midday darkness strategically position Earth's polar regions as natural laboratories to study this effect. We reviewed 2337 studies t...

Mortality, suicidality and deliberate self-harm in functional seizures: systematic review, age-based, sex-based and region-based meta-analyses - No abstract

Using valproate in epilepsy - No abstract

3,4-Dimethoxyacetophenone ameliorates epileptogenesis by suppressing BDNF, c-fos, and JAK-2/ STAT-3 expression in a pentylenetetrazole-induced kindling model of epilepsy - Epilepsy is a neurological condition that affects approximately 50 million individuals worldwide. Current treatments mainly alleviate symptoms and have substantial adverse effects, with about 1/3 of patients not responding to existing medications. This underscores the urgent need for new drugs that can overcome these challenges. According to recent studies, the Janus kinase/ signal transducer a...

A prospective, open-label randomized controlled trial: efficacy of prednisolone with vitamin B12 versus prednisolone in children with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome - CONCLUSION: Prednisolone demonstrated moderate efficacy in controlling spasms in children with IESS. However, the addition of vitamin B12 did not significantly improve seizure control, relapse rates, or developmental outcomes compared with prednisolone alone. Larger multicentre studies evaluating baseline vitamin B12 status are warranted to clarify the role of targeted supplementation in the ma...

Clinical meaning of significant intraindividual asymmetries in material-specific memory performance within the unimpaired range in 432 people with epilepsy - Material-specific memory deficits can provide lateralizing information regarding epileptogenic foci or structural lesions. Intraindividual performance asymmetries may occur despite overall unimpaired performance. This study investigates the clinical relevance of such asymmetries in people with epilepsy (PWE). We retrospectively analyzed data from 432 PWE who demonstrated unimpaired verbal and f...

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.