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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 ...

Wearable Tech Advances in Epilepsy Seizure Detection - A narrative review published in Acta Epileptologica on March 2, 2026, synthesizes the current state of wearable digital health technologies in epilepsy management.

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 ...

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 ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

Epilepsy Patients' Own Alert Labels Helped an AI Seizure Monitor Cut False Alarms by About 80% in Simulation - A study found summer food insufficiency rose 4 percentage points among low-income households with children, while first-year Summer EBT participation was low and showed no measurable effect. Federal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can Brain Training Reduce Tinnitus? "Neurofeedback" Research Advancing in Switzerland - Tinnitus is not a phenomenon that occurs only within the ears.Recent research suggests that many cases of tinnitus are caused and sustained by "changes in how the brain functions." This has led to ...

Systematic Review Finds Few Active Controlled Benefits in Athlete Neurofeedback Studies - A systematic review of 56 athletic neurofeedback studies reveals that while positive outcomes are widely reported, only 18 percent demonstrate benefits over active control groups.

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 ...

Exploratory analysis of cell-free miRNA expression changes in patients with isolated first seizure and new-onset epilepsy - One in ten individuals will experience a seizure in their lives, but only 43%-61% will be diagnosed with new-onset epilepsy (NOE). Existing methods to distinguish between a first unprovoked seizure and a diagnosis of epilepsy are inadequate and often lead to unnecessary treatment with antiseizure medications. To uncover potential targets associated with NOE, we analyzed cell-free circulating mi...

Epilepsy at the Airport - CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that patients with IGE may be at higher risk of seizures in these circumstances. The predominance of events in departure terminals, particularly before morning flights, highlights a potentially modifiable risk factor. Targeted counselling on modifiable risk factors may reduce risk and anxiety and should be incorporated into routine clinical care to support saf...

Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in epilepsy: Mechanistic insights from preclinical models - Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a pleiotropic neuropeptide widely expressed in the central and peripheral nervous systems, with established roles in neurovascular regulation, synaptic transmission, and neuroinflammation. While CGRP has been extensively characterized in migraine pathophysiology, its role in epilepsy remains incompletely defined and is primarily supported by experimenta...

Predictors of Early Postoperative Seizures Following STA-MCA Bypass in Adult Moyamoya Angiopathy - Background: Postoperative epileptic seizures are a recognized complication after superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery (STA-MCA) bypass for Moyamoya angiopathy (MMA), but their determinants remain incompletely understood. We aimed to identify clinical, radiological, and perioperative factors associated with early postoperative seizures following adult STA-MCA bypass. Methods: We re...

An ESP32-S3 Multimodal Wearable Sensor Platform with Embedded XGBoost for Focal-to-Bilateral Tonic-Clonic Seizure Detection and IoT Alerting - Wearable seizure-detection systems can provide objective event monitoring and rapid caregiver alerting without continuous bedside observation. This study presents a resource-constrained multimodal wearable sensor platform for focal-to-bilateral tonic-clonic seizure (FBTCS) detection using edge artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) communication. The prototype integrates an ESP32-...

Temporal Patterns of Serum Neuroprotectin D1 and Resolvin D1 After Motor and Nonmotor Epileptic Seizures: A Prospective Repeated-Measures Study - Objective: Neuroinflammatory activation is well recognized in epilepsy, whereas the temporal behavior of specialized pro-resolving mediator (SPM) responses after seizures remains poorly defined. We evaluated changes in serum neuroprotectin D1 (NP-1) and resolvin D1 (RvD1) between the early postictal period and a seizure-free period of at least 1 month and compared both time points with healthy ...

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.