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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does Levetiracetam Improve Seizure Outcomes in Pediatric Epilepsy? - Although levetiracetam was associated with improved seizure outcomes compared with placebo in pediatric epilepsy, it did not demonstrate superior efficacy when compared with established active ...

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that the memory-forming stage of sleep could be key for understanding epileptic seizures. . | Credit: ...

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 ...

Camelback Recovery Launches Neurofeedback Therapy at Its Phoenix Treatment Center - Camelback Recovery has launched neurofeedback therapy at its Phoenix treatment center, expanding the care options available within its mental health and addiction programs. Phoenix, Arizona--(Newsfile ...

Testing a brain training device for better focus sleep and relaxation - A detailed review of a neurofeedback headband exploring how brain training technology works and the creator’s experience using it for focus relaxation sleep and mental performance. #Neurofeedback #Men ...

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 ...

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 ...

Income Volatility and Risk of All-Cause Mortality and Cause-Specific Hospitalization Among Adults With Depression: A Nationwide Cohort Study - CONCLUSION: Income volatility is a risk factor for increased mortality and hospitalization among individuals with depression, separable from baseline income. These findings underscore income volatility as a critical but overlooked determinant of health in this population.

Determining meaningful neuropsychological changes following epilepsy surgery for Chinese-speaking patients in Taiwan - CONCLUSION: This study developed and demonstrated the clinical applicability of disease-specific, population-specific RCI and SRB indices for Traditional Chinese-speaking patients with TLE. These indices provide a standardized framework for accounting for practice effects, regression to the mean, and test-retest variability when interpreting meaningful cognitive changes following epilepsy surgery.

Bilateral lingual epilepsy following traumatic brain injury - Lingual seizures are an uncommon form of focal motor epilepsy. Although classically associated with infective, neoplastic or vascular causes, it may follow traumatic brain injury. A 37-year-old man had sustained a severe brain injury when aged 2 years. Following a generalised tonic-clonic seizure at the age of 9 years, he subsequently had brief and recurrent episodes of bilateral lingual twitch...

Exploratory bidirectional Mendelian randomisation analysis of cerebrospinal fluid metabolites associated with cerebral palsy and epilepsy - CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide hypothesis-generating evidence regarding metabolic pathways potentially involved in CP and epilepsy and may inform future experimental and clinical investigations. Independent validation and functional studies are required before clinical application can be considered.

Empagliflozin attenuates PTZ-induced neurotoxicity and enhances the protective effects of levetiracetam: associations with NRF2/GPX4 and AMPK/ULK1/ LC3-II signaling - CONCLUSION: EMPA was associated with antiseizure and neuroprotective effects in PTZ-induced kindling epilepsy, particularly when combined with reduced-dose LEV (100mg/kg). These findings suggest that EMPA may represent a promising candidate for further investigation as an adjunctive therapeutic approach in epilepsy.

Nonconvulsive status epilepticus featuring ictal paresis mimicking a stroke - CONCLUSION: IP represents an under-recognized manifestation of NCSE. This study shows that perfusion-based neuroimaging is more sensitive than EEG for detecting ictal activity in this setting. We advocate for the routine inclusion of ASL sequences in the neuroimaging evaluation of patients with a suspected stroke and negative DWI findings.

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.