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Northwell study reveals hope for significant seizure reduction in chronic epilepsy - MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the millions of people worldwide living with severe forms of epilepsy, some do not respond to medication and it can be difficult to find lasting relief. Patients ...

What to know about epilepsy and seizure first aid - November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. Many people may already be aware of the condition from its prevalence in medical dramas, but that portrayal is often exaggerated and does not fully encapsulate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why Epilepsy Transition Matters in Young People - A structured transition from paediatric to adult epilepsy care is linked to improved seizure control between ages of 17 and 20 years in young people with epilepsy.

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 ...

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, ...

New fMRI neurofeedback study trains the brain to reduce depressive rumination - Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is far from a cookie-cutter diagnosis. Different patients report suffering from different subsets of symptoms, yet most are ultimately prescribed the same first-line ...

Neurofeedback Trains Brain to Stop Depressive Rumination - A new study uses real-time fMRI neurofeedback to help depression patients reduce rumination by training specific brain circuits in a gamified environment.

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 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 ...

Neurofeedback gets you back in the zone - Researchers have shown -- for the first time -- that they can use online neurofeedback to modify an individual's arousal state to improve performance in a demanding sensory motor task, such as flying ...

Epilepsy associated with SYNGAP1 gene variants: clinical features of six cases and a literature review - CONCLUSIONS: Myoclonic seizures, absence seizures, and eyelid myoclonia are common in SYNGAP1-related epilepsy. Valproate is generally effective, but combination therapy is often required. Neurodevelopmental impairment shows limited improvement despite seizure control.

Pulvinar subdivisions and connectivity patterns across primate species: a comparative perspective - With the advances in our ability to perturb brain activity in recent years, new stimulation techniques have become essential tools in human neuroscience. Non-invasive stimulation methods, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), as well as deep brain stimulation (DBS) delivered invasively to access deep brain structures, have been applied in both basic and clinical research and in the t...

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Translational Biomarker in Early-Phase Anti-Seizure Medication Development: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study in Generalized Epilepsy - One-third of epilepsy patients remain treatment-resistant, underscoring the need for novel anti-seizure medications (ASMs) and reliable biomarkers of central target engagement. Cortical hyperexcitability is a hallmark of epilepsy, making excitability a valuable pharmacodynamic biomarker for early-phase drug development supporting go/no-go decision making. Building upon prior transcranial magnet...

Case Study 12: A 57-Year-Old Man With Seizures, Paranoid Psychosis, and Catatonia - No abstract

Identification of Mitochondrial Dysfunction-Related Candidate Biomarkers and Analysis of the Immune Cell Infiltration in Epilepsy - Epilepsy is a severe neurological disorder with complex pathogenesis. Mitochondrial dysfunction (MitD) is increasingly recognized as a key driver of epileptogenesis and seizure generation, contributing to neuronal hyperexcitability and network instability. However, the potential mechanisms linking MitD to epilepsy remain incompletely understood. This study aimed to identify MitD-related biomark...

Evaluation of metformin for epilepsy prevention or seizure control in people without evidence of diabetes: retrospective cohort study - CONCLUSIONS: Metformin could have repurposed benefits in epilepsy. This warrants further investigation.

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.