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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 ...

Where Community Sparks Hope: November Marks National Epilepsy Awareness Month - This November, the Epilepsy Foundation of America invites everyone across the country to uplift the epilepsy community during National Epilepsy Awareness Month (NEAM).

Seizure-alert dogs give new freedom to epilepsy sufferers - He is a specially trained seizure dog who may one day be able to save the life of his new owner, Colise Johnson. "Having epilepsy and cerebral palsy is kind of like having a nonstop roller coaster ...

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 ...

Circulating miRNAs may flag who develops epilepsy after a first seizure - A small exploratory study found 15 cell-free miRNAs in plasma that differed between patients whose first unprovoked seizure remained isolated and those who had a second seizure within two years.

Can Neurofeedback Effectively Treat ADHD? - Neurofeedback training is an alternative therapy that uses real-time EEG data to help patients train their brains to improve focus, impulse control, and executive function. Since the 1970s, patients ...

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 ...

There is something I want people struggling with ADHD to know - Today, please let me talk a little seriously about my work.I usually work in neurofeedback, which is a field that approaches how the brain functions.In doing so, there is something I have felt for a ...

Putting is not as simple as 'train your brain and it will go in.' A study summarizing 12 RCTs and 424 people - Golf and brain science are a compatible topic. Concentration Pressure Movement automation Attention Putting, in particular, requires precise control rather than large physical force, so neurofeedback ...

Advances in Multidimensional Molecular Mechanisms of Epilepsy and Precision Therapy Strategies - CONCLUSIONS: Integrating multi-omics insights to construct a holistic precision medicine framework, spanning from molecular diagnosis to tailored network therapy, is fundamental for advancing epilepsy treatment. Future efforts must focus on translating this integrated understanding into effective clinical strategies to overcome therapeutic resistance.

Three-Dimensional Gait Analysis in STXBP1-Related Disorder - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: STXBP1-related disorder (STXBP1-RD), caused by pathogenic variants in the STXBP1 gene, is a rare neurodevelopmental condition, characterized by early-onset seizures, developmental delay, intellectual disability (ID), and prominent motor dysfunction. Despite the high prevalence of motor symptoms, systematic gait characterization remains limited. The aim of this study w...

A network-control approach to seizure intervention via adjoint optimal control: a computational study on a connectome-coupled Hopf oscillator model - Most existing open-loop Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) systems for drug-resistant epilepsy do not take into account the temporal dynamics of seizures or the spread of seizure activity. In this paper, we propose a closed-loop control system that models seizure prevention as a constraint on the nonlinear dynamics of the brain's structural network, and we evaluate it entirely in simulation. The stru...

Investigating cardiorespiratory fitness, cerebral blood flow, and brain metabolism in epilepsy - INTRODUCTION: Idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGEs) are characterized by seizures that propagate through widespread thalamocortical networks including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Poor cardiorespiratory fitness may exacerbate neurovascular and metabolic vulnerability including heightened susceptibility to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. We aimed to examine cardiorespiratory fitn...

Expert Review on the Use of Methylphenidate in Children and Adult With Epilepsy and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a comorbidity affecting 12%-29% of individuals with epilepsy, significantly impacting learning, psychosocial development, behaviour, and quality of life. Moreover, ADHD and epilepsy share a bidirectional relationship. Although methylphenidate has been proven effective in alleviating ADHD symptoms, its use remains limited in individuals with epi...

Sleep position and sleep apnea in newborns - CONCLUSION: Surprisingly, sleep apnea in neonates requiring NICU care may not be exacerbated by supine sleep, with possible exceptions in some specific conditions. Although we did not study healthy newborns, we speculate that obligate nasal breathing in neonates may protect against worsening of sleep apnea when supine. "Back to Sleep" remains life-saving and appears unlikely to increase sleep a...

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.