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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 ...

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: 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 ...

Seizure or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A sudden episode of shaking, confusion, or loss of awareness can be frightening - but does it mean epilepsy? Understanding the difference between a seizure and epilepsy is crucial for timely treatment ...

Epilepsy Explained: Causes, Seizure Types, and Treatment Options for Better Control - Egyptian fruit bats flew more slowly after eating alcohol-laced food. Now the urine strips that caught boozy wild chimps may be used on wild bats. Teen Heart Health Scores Average 68.3 in Ninth Grade ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - See more of our trusted coverage when you search. 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 ...

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? - 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 ...

Can Monitoring Brain Waves Boost Mental Health? - Neurofeedback has promised a mental health revolution for decades. But is it effective? Credit...Tony Luong for The New York Times Supported by By David Dodge Twice a week, Stephanie, a 37-year-old ...

Early-life prolonged hyperthermic seizures alter disease trajectory in the Scn1a(+/-)(tm1Kea) mouse model of Dravet syndrome - Dravet syndrome (DS) is a catastrophic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy caused most often by de novo loss-of-function mutations in SCN1A, the gene encoding the alpha subunit of the voltage-gated sodium channel (Na(v)1.1). Animal models such as the Scn1a(+/-)^(tm1Kea) mouse display relevant DS phenotypes including sensitivity to hyperthermia-induced seizures and later-life spontaneous ...

Temporal evolution of EEG hallmarks in childhood Lennox-Gastaut syndrome - CONCLUSION: EEG hallmarks of LGS emerged progressively during childhood, with slow spike-and-wave preceding GPFA during sleep. Following early clinical manifestations, a prolonged developmental phase may precede full electroclinical expression of LGS, with implications for early diagnosis and longitudinal EEG surveillance.

Dravet Syndrome Updates: Evolving Insights and Emerging Therapeutics - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This narrative review aims to evaluate current literature on Dravet syndrome, integrating significant new findings into the existing knowledge of pathophysiology and disease course, and highlighting emerging treatments.

Copy number variants across the developmental epilepsy-developmental and epileptic encephalopathy spectrum: an Indonesian case series - Developmental epilepsy (DE) and developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) comprise neurodevelopmental disorders in which epilepsy occurs alongside developmental impairment of varying contributions from the underlying etiology and epileptic activity. Advances in genetic testing, including whole-exome sequencing (WES), whole-genome sequencing (WGS), and chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA...

Transition of spike to seizure networks in the rat somatosensory and motor cortex requires mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling - OBJECTIVE: During epileptogenesis, epileptic spikes emerge before seizures, yet the network mechanisms linking spike activity to seizure generation remain unclear. Previously, we showed that mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MAP2K) inhibition reduces spiking in tetanus toxin (TeNT)-injected rats. Here, we advanced the TeNT rat model to transition from spike to seizure networks to better ...

Stability of the Epileptogenic Index across seizures and the effects of sleep and withdrawal of anti-seizure medications - OBJECTIVE: Epileptogenic Index (EI) is a promising index to evaluate the epileptogenicity of the brain tissue and is useful in planning epilepsy surgery. We aimed to evaluate whether EI maps are consistent across seizures within patients and whether EI-derived measures are affected by the vigilance state and anti-seizure medication (ASM) dose.

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.