Epilepsy News

Dover teen advocates for NH’s first seizure-safe schools law - Parker Hadd, a Dover High School senior, is testifying at the NH House in support of legislation to improve safety for kids with epilepsy in schools.

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 ...

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 ...

Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy, so it is a relatively common diagnosis. In fact, it is the fourth ...

Understanding epilepsy: Seven ways to respond to an epileptic seizure - At the forefront of epilepsy research and treatment is the University of Alabama at Birmingham Epilepsy Center, a collaborative initiative between the UAB Department of Neurology and UAB Hospital, ...

Seizure Burden in Resistant Epilepsy May Ease With the Tincture of Time - Nearly 70% of patients with focal treatment-resistant epilepsy (FTRE) experience fewer seizures over time, new results of a multicenter study showed. However, the improvements occurred independent of ...

Why Early Detection of Seizures and Epilepsy Is so Important - For parents, a child having a seizure is one of the most frightening experiences imaginable. While many childhood seizures are brief and isolated, others are more serious and persistent. To make the ...

Neurofeedback game helps patients with MS manage fatigue - A compassionate neurofeedback game that can identify fatigue aims to help patients with MS, according to a poster presented at Cedars-Sinai’s eighth annual iteration of its Virtual Medicine Conference ...

What is neurofeedback? Video game-like therapy being used to treat anxiety, ADHD and more - It’s like a gym for your brain. As issues like anxiety, depression and restless sleep have spiked during the pandemic, some people are turning to neurofeedback, a kind of gym for the brain. It’s a ...

Evidence-based retraining of the brain available on the Kenai Peninsula - Neurofeedback therapy for children and adults offers an effective, alternative to traditional treatment For many people struggling with ADHD, poor focus, insomnia or emotional dysregulation, the path ...

Sens.ai Introduces First Functional EEG-Based Brain Age Clock Validated at MRI-Grade Accuracy - Pivotal study co-authored by researchers at the Buck Institute and Sens.ai, shows participants improved their brain age by an average of 5.18 years in 56 days. When we ran the data, BrainYears: turned ...

Understanding The Role Of Neurofeedback Technology In Addressing ADHD - Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent challenge in today's educational and professional landscapes. Most of us are familiar with ADHD, either ...

Effect of Physical Exercise on Acute Post-traumatic Hyperexcitability: The Role of Thrombin/PAR1 Signaling - Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of long-term neurological disability worldwide. Among its complications, post-traumatic seizures (PTS) can exacerbate injury outcomes and increase the risk of developing post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), particularly in severe cases. This study investigated the role of thrombin/PAR1 signaling in early post-traumatic hyperexcitability and evaluated wh...

Epilepsy surgery outcomes and their determinants: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis - CONCLUSIONS: These findings inform surgical planning for drug-resistant epilepsy, emphasising individual patient characteristics to guide personalised treatment, improve outcomes and reflect the growing complexity of intersecting factors.

Age-stratified long-term outcomes of perampanel in focal seizure: A multicenter real-world study in South Korea - CONCLUSION: In this study, PER demonstrated sustained effectiveness and acceptable tolerability across age groups. Careful titration and consideration of comorbidity and electroencephalographic features may support more individualized PER use, particularly in elderly patients.

Efficacy and tolerability of felbamate in adults with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities and drug-resistant epilepsy: A single-center evaluation - CONCLUSION: Felbamate may provide sustained clinical benefit in adults with severe IDD and refractory epilepsy when used under structured clinical and laboratory monitoring.

The Discovery of Cenobamate: A Drug with High Efficacy in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - Cenobamate is a novel alkyl-carbamate antiseizure medication (ASM) that represents a major breakthrough in the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy, particularly focal seizures. Unlike other ASMs, cenobamate achieves seizure freedom in up to one third of patients with focal drug-resistant epilepsy-a response not observed with other therapies. Herein, we describe the chemocentric and phenotypic ...

Leukocytes Transcriptome Analysis of Genes Associated with Epilepsy Duration and Age of Onset - Epilepsy is increasingly understood not as a fixed condition, but a dynamic and potentially progressive disorder. Beyond its primary impact on the brain, growing evidence indicates that epilepsy also exerts widespread systemic effects, influencing multiple physiological systems. Two temporal factors-the age at seizure onset and duration of epilepsy-could help understand if time with epilepsy sh...

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.