Epilepsy News

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 ...

New tools map seizures in the brain, improve epilepsy treatment - Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that part ...

New genetic switch could improve gene therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy - Epilepsy affects more than 50 million people worldwide, making it one of the most common neurological disorders. Although medication helps many patients achieve seizure control, approximately ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention - You sit in a chair, facing a computer screen, while a clinician sticks electrodes to your scalp with a viscous goop that takes days to wash out of your hair. Wires from the sensors connect to a ...

Neurofeedback for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...

Vigabatrin-related MRI changes and tapering strategy in hemispherotomy for infantile spasms: illustrative case - BACKGROUND: Infantile spasms associated with unilateral structural malformations represent a severe epileptic encephalopathy requiring early definitive treatment. Vigabatrin remains a first-line therapy, yet its reversible neurotoxic effects-linked to GABA-mediated intramyelinic edema-can produce MRI abnormalities that mimic disease progression. Differentiating these drug-related findings from ...

Genetic testing among patients evaluated for epilepsy surgery - OBJECTIVE: Genetic testing performed to identify the underlying etiology of epilepsy has become increasingly common and is now being recommended as part of the presurgical evaluation for epilepsy surgery. This study aimed to characterize the types of genetic tests performed in patients evaluated for epilepsy surgery and assess how genetic findings have influenced clinical treatment decisions an...

EStiMapp: A practical tool for mapping clinical symptoms evoked by electrical stimulation in intracranial EEG for epilepsy surgery - CONCLUSIONS: We present an in-house developed workflow and graphical user interface (GUI) to categorize and directly visualize evoked clinical symptoms resulting from electrical stimulation on intracranial electrodes.

Socioeconomic status and epilepsy surgery in the United States: Timing and outcomes - OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy surgery offers curative potential for refractory focal epilepsy, yet it remains underutilized, particularly among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. In this study, we aim to explore the impact of socioeconomic status on timing and subsequently on outcomes of epilepsy surgery.

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Antipsychotics and Seizure Risk in Patients with Brain Tumors: Mechanisms, Modifiers, and Clinical Insights - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Neuropsychiatric symptoms including agitation, delirium, and psychosis are common in patients with primary or metastatic brain tumors and frequently necessitate antipsychotic treatment. Brain tumors create a hyperexcitable cortical environment characterized by glutamatergic excess, impaired inhibitory signaling, peritumoral edema, network disruption, and treatment-related neu...

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.