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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 ...

Frequent cannabis users developed drug-resistant epilepsy 13 years earlier than non-users: study - A recent study published in 'Epilepsia' has found link between frequent recreational cannabis use and worsening seizures in patients with epilepsy.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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? - 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 ...

Excellent Brain Partners with Scholas Occurrentes to Bring ADHD Neurofeedback Training to Schools and Universities Worldwide - Founded in 2015 and based in Israel, Excellent Brain Ltd. develops neurofeedback-based brain-training technology designed to support attention and focus. Its Trainer Kit, is used by clinics, schools, ...

What Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

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 ...

Network reorganization of anterograde thalamic connectivity during non-periodic patterned deep brain stimulation - Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT) can reduce seizures in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. However, seizure freedom is rare, and there is no early response biomarker to predict long-term seizure suppression. To evaluate a candidate short-term biomarker of therapeutic response to DBS, we studied 18-min trials of ANT stimulation in patients with drug-...

Acute Intrapartum Seizure in a Pregnant Woman with Epilepsy Receiving Divalproex: Maternal-Fetal Consequences and Emergency Obstetric Management-A Case Report - CONCLUSION: Careful multidisciplinary management of epilepsy during pregnancy is essential. Breakthrough seizures during labor may lead to acute fetal compromise and require emergency delivery. Close antenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum monitoring is crucial to optimize maternal and neonatal outcomes.

Cardiac repolarization abnormalities and SUDEP risk in epilepsy - BACKGROUND: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the leading cause of epilepsy-related mortality, yet its mechanisms remain complex and multifactorial. Cardiac repolarization abnormalities are proposed biomarkers, but evidence is scarce, especially in low- and middle-income countries where epilepsy is highly prevalent.

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: An Italian expert consensus statement on risk, mechanisms, prevention, and therapeutic strategies - OBJECTIVE: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a leading cause of premature mortality in people with epilepsy, particularly in those with tonic-clonic seizures (TCSs), developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs), and drug-resistant epilepsy. Although awareness of SUDEP has increased, major uncertainties remain regarding individualized risk stratification, mechanistic interpre...

Predictors of Seizure Occurrence After Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease in Older Adults in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System: A Retrospective Cohort Study - CONCLUSION: Our study showed that seizure risk is elevated in MCI and AD, with specific comorbidities associated with risk of seizure occurrence and cognitive decline, suggesting potentially actionable targets for risk stratification and clinical monitoring.

Response to: "Early benzodiazepine treatment and electrographic seizures after febrile status epilepticus" - We appreciate Inui et al.'s comments regarding the divergent prognostic outcomes of patients with electrographic seizures (ESz) between our studies. The poorer prognosis in their cohort compared to ours likely stems from three key differences. First, baseline disease severity significantly differed. Our cohort predominantly consisted of milder cases, such as febrile seizures, with only 17.2% re...

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.