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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 ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention - You sit in a chair, facing a computer screen, while a clinician sticks electrodes to your scalp with a viscous goop that takes days to wash out of your hair. Wires from the sensors connect to a ...

Closed-loop neurofeedback reshapes preparatory brain states to bias subsequent pain processing - EEG neurofeedback as a method to modulate brain activity prior to painful stimulation and examined its effect on pain perception in a well-powered, double-blind study. Results showed that real, but ...

Brain training with neurofeedback shows enhanced benefits on cognitive functions - Neurofeedback has been used for decades to reinforce healthy brain functions. With previous research reporting a positive correlation between enhanced brain activities during brain training and ...

Vagus nerve stimulation as an add-on therapy in patients with epilepsy: a prospective, multicenter, real-world study in China - CONCLUSIONS: VNS is an effective and safe adjunctive treatment for epilepsy, reducing seizure frequency and significantly improving quality of life, with a cumulative effect over time.

Enhanced hippocampal miR-32-5p promotes neuronal hyperexcitability and epileptic seizures by targeting KCC2 - MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that control gene expression at the post-transcriptional level and are involved in the pathogenesis of epilepsy. Although miRNA-32-5p (miR-32-5p) is known to be significantly upregulated at seizure onset in patients, its function and mechanism in neuron hyperexcitability and epileptic seizures remain unclear. In this study, we demonstrated elevated le...

Current Clinical Evidence on Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery - Intranasal delivery is increasingly recognised as a promising strategy for direct drug transport to the brain via the nose-to-brain pathway, bypassing the blood-brain barrier and improving therapeutic efficacy. This approach has shown potential in the treatment of neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and acute psychiatric cond...

Clinical significance of subclinical seizures in epilepsy presurgical evaluation: A systematic review and meta-analysis - OBJECTIVE: Subclinical seizures (SCSs) remain an understudied aspect of presurgical evaluation in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), with uncertain prevalence, distribution among epilepsy types, and predictive value for surgical outcomes. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to explore the occurrence of SCSs, their concordance with the seizure-onset zone (SOZ), and their asso...

Clinical subtypes and sleep-wake evolution pattern in epilepsy manifesting as sleep-related seizures - OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy manifesting as sleep-related seizures (EpSRS) represents a common but heterogeneous group. This study aimed to identify distinct clinical subtypes of EpSRS and explore alterations in sleep-wake seizure rhythms over the disease course.

Seizure Action Plans Beyond the Neurology Clinic: What Emergency, School, and Primary Care Teams Need to Know for Children With Epilepsy - Most seizures in children with epilepsy occur outside the neurology clinic. Seizure action plans (SAPs) are designed to extend the neurologist's management plan into these settings. Early SAPs primarily targeted caregivers, while current plans target not only caregivers but also teachers, other medical providers, and anyone else who may be able to intervene on behalf of these children. Some stu...

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.