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 ...

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 ...

Alta Health Providing Access to Neurofeedback in Dallas - Alta Health highlights outpatient neurofeedback in Dallas, offering adults a noninvasive support option for ADHD, ...

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 ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - Neurofeedback is a noninvasive form of therapy that trains the brain to improve various neurological issues, including chronic pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD. Using EEG to monitor real-time ...

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 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 ...

Cannabidiol in Adults With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: Real-World Experience - CONCLUSIONS: CBD was associated with sustained effectiveness and good tolerability in adults with LGS, with high retention and improvement in seizure and other clinically meaningful outcomes. Adverse effects, mainly interaction-related, were usually managed with concomitant medication adjustments.

Interictal Single-Voxel Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of the Temporal Lobe in Cats with Idiopathic Epilepsy: A Prospective Case-Control Study - Background: Idiopathic epilepsy (IE) is among the most frequent chronic neurological disorders of cats, but by definition it is associated with an unremarkable conventional brain MRI, leaving its temporal lobe pathophysiology poorly characterised. Objectives: To quantify interictal temporal lobe neurometabolite ratios in cats with IE using bilateral single-voxel ¹H-MRS and to compare them with ...

Reduction of Microglial Reactivity by Cannabidiol: Preliminary Data Obtained in an Astrocyte-Microglia Co-Culture Model of Inflammation - Background/Objectives: Glia-mediated inflammation contributes to a wide range of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including epilepsy. Pregabalin (PGB) and cannabidiol (CBD) are CNS-acting drugs prescribed for various neuropsychiatric conditions, especially seizures. This study investigated the effects of PGB and CBD on glial properties in an astrocyte-microglia co-culture model of inflam...

Presumed Hippocampal Endometriosis Presenting as Catamenial Epilepsy: Diagnostic Challenges, MRI Follow-Up, and Comparative Review of Reported Cerebral Endometriosis Case - Background: Cerebral endometriosis is an exceptionally rare manifestation of extrapelvic endometriosis and remains a diagnostic challenge because its clinical and imaging features may mimic more common neurological, inflammatory, vascular, or neoplastic disorders. Catamenial neurological symptoms may provide an important diagnostic clue, but histological confirmation is rarely available. Case p...

Multifocal Initiation of Spreading Depolarization by Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures - Epileptic seizures are self-terminating events, yet the precise mechanisms underlying their cessation and the subsequent postictal suppression remain incompletely understood. Spreading depression (SD)-a traveling wave of intense depolarization and electrical silence-has emerged as a potential mechanism of focal seizure termination. Given that generalized tonic-clonic seizures involve widespread...

Levetiracetam and Peripheral Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in Epilepsy: A Systematic Review of Human Evidence - Oxidative stress is implicated in epilepsy, but seizures, disease severity, diet, comorbidity and treatment all influence circulating redox biomarkers. We systematically reviewed human evidence on levetiracetam (LEV) under three estimands: within-person change, LEV-treated epilepsy versus healthy controls, and LEV versus other antiseizure medications. PubMed/MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Web of Sc...

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.