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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 ...

Study: Epilepsy patients benefit from structured 'seizure action plans' - A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status. These ...

Frequent Cannabis Use Tied to Greater Seizure Burden in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - Frequent cannabis users with drug-resistant epilepsy have more convulsive seizures and require more antiseizure medications, but researchers caution that the findings do not establish causation.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preliminary evidence of long-term safety and effectiveness of anti-CGRP drugs for migraine prevention in people with comorbid epilepsy: A 52-week follow-up retrospective study - Migraine and epilepsy frequently coexist, but evidence on the safety of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-targeting therapies in people with epilepsy is lacking. We evaluated long-term migraine and epilepsy outcomes in a real-world multicenter retrospective cohort of adults with comorbid migraine and epilepsy treated with anti-CGRP monoclonal antibodies or gepants while on stable antiseizu...

Drosophila prickle mutants display comorbid neurological phenotypes and present with autism spectrum disorder-associated phenotypes - Epilepsy affects approximately 30% of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Consistent with these observations, while PRICKLE mutations are primarily linked with epilepsy, there is an enrichment of pathogenic DNA sequence variants in PRICKLE genes carried by individuals with ASD. Nonetheless, a connection between PRICKLE function and ASD warrants further investigation. Here, we show ...

Re-evaluating the neuroprotective landscape of Nigella sativa: Molecular mechanisms, nanomedicine, and clinical translation - Nigella Sativa (NS) L., commonly known as black seed, and its major bioactive compound, thymoquinone (TQ), have long been used in traditional medicine and have recently gained increasing attention as potential neuroprotective agents. TQ exerts pleiotropic effects within the central nervous system through several interconnected mechanisms, including activation of the Nrf2/HO-1 antioxidant pathwa...

Emergency Department Visits for Falls and First-Time Seizure - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Unrecognized seizures occur in up to 77% of individuals with epilepsy, leading to delays in diagnosis with significant consequences including injury, mortality, impaired psychosocial functioning, and negative socioeconomic impacts. Falls are a common reason to present to the emergency department (ED) and may be a sentinel sign of an unrecognized seizure. Whether falls...

Cross-Subject Localization of Epileptogenic Zone for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy Based on the Causal Brain Network - CONCLUSION: Causal brain network features extracted by FCCM are robust biomarkers for localizing the EZ.

Brain volumetric signatures of neighborhood disadvantage in focal epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: Social disadvantage is an important determinant of health in focal epilepsy, but its neurobiological basis remains unclear. We examined whether brain morphometric alterations represent a structural signature of deprivation.

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.