Epilepsy News

New Study Offers Hope for People With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - The new study, part of the international Human Epilepsy Project, tracked nearly 150 adults who were deemed treatment-resistant. In other words, they still had seizures despite having tried at least ...

Epilepsy Treatment Resistance May Fade Over Time - Longitudinal data suggested that treatment-resistant focal epilepsy may improve over time. Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy may improve over time, longitudinal data from the Human Epilepsy Project 2 ...

New study offers hope for patients with treatment-resistant focal epilepsy - About one-third of patients with focal epilepsy, a common form of the neurological disorder, are believed to respond poorly to available therapies.

Seizure Frequency Improves Over Time in Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy - For patients with focal treatment-resistant epilepsy, seizure frequency improves over time, according to a recent study.

Resistance to epilepsy treatments may wane over time, study suggests - About one-third of patients with focal epilepsy, a common form of the neurological disorder, are believed to respond poorly to available therapies. Yet they too may eventually see improvement, if not ...

Epilepsy surgery effective treatment for drug-resistant patients Dr Fowzia Siddiqui - Epilepsy surgery is an effective treatment for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, said Dr Fowzia Siddiqui, President of the Epilepsy Foundation Pakistan and neurologist/epileptologist at Aga Khan ...

Seizure Control After Focal Epilepsy Diagnosis Remains a Clinical Difficulty - Most patients with newly diagnosed focal epilepsy face early seizure recurrence, often needing multiple ASM trials to achieve seizure freedom.

Transforming lives through epilepsy surgery - As the chief of pediatric neurosurgery and surgical director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital and Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, Muh performs ...

SK Biopharmaceuticals Launches Joint Venture with Eurofarma for AI-based Epilepsy Management Platform - SK Biopharmaceuticals, Co., Ltd., a biotech company focusing on research, development, and commercialization of treatments for disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) and oncology worldwide, ...

Sun Prairie family climbs mountains to raise epilepsy awareness - John Olson, from Sun Prairie, loves the outdoors and a good challenge. Whether he is climbing up mountains or skiing down them, he doesn’t let his epilepsy stop him from doing what he loves.“It feels ...

Expert in Brain Imaging Publishes New Book, Changing the Way We See and Treat the Brain. - In his new book, Making the Invisible Visible, clinician and brain imaging expert Anthony Silver shows how quantitative EEG (qEEG) “brain mapping” and neurofeedback are revolutionizing care for ADHD, ...

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 ...

I think, therefore I heal: the weird science of neurofeedback - Imagine if treating a mental illness was as simple as playing a video game — except your mind is the controller. That idea isn’t only real, it’s a therapy gaining traction in the medical community and ...

Neurofeedback is the newest mental health hack among entrepreneurs. Here’s why - Running a business can be an exhilarating and rewarding journey, but it can also bring a unique set of stressors. While the beginning stages of a business can be exciting and feel full of ...

Neurofeedback for Anxiety - Chronic anxiety is the long-term negative psychological experience to environmental stressors, characterized by prolonged and inappropriately excessive worrying, fatigue, restlessness, concertation, ...

Thalamocortical hodology to personalize electrical stimulation for focal epilepsy - Thalamic electrical stimulation offers a therapeutic approach for refractory epilepsy patients ineligibles for resective surgery. Yet, there is currently no consensus on the optimal stimulation site. We hypothesized that targeting thalamic nuclei with precise anatomical and functional connections (hodological matching) to cortical seizure onset zones (SOZs) could enhance neuromodulatory effects...

Ivermectin: a therapeutic strategy to treat patients with resistant epilepsy - Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) remains a major clinical challenge, with up to one-third of patients experiencing uncontrolled seizures despite polytherapy. Ivermectin (IVM), a macrocyclic lactone with antiparasitic, neuromodulatory, and anti-inflammatory properties, has recently emerged as a candidate adjunctive therapy. We conducted an observational study including 146 patients with highly refr...

Going beyond seizure control: evidence for cost-effectiveness of epilepsy surgery - No abstract

Examining Seizure Documentation Practices by Primary Care Clinicians - BACKGROUND: Primary care clinicians (PCCs) frequently report low levels of comfort in managing seizure disorders, despite their essential role in caring for patients with seizures from systematically excluded groups. This study explores seizure care practices among PCCs at a federally qualified health center and examines possible associations between provider documentation of seizure care and p...

New and old targets: evolving framework for personalized DBS in refractory epilepsy - Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) remains a major therapeutic challenge, and neuromodulation has emerged as an essential palliative option for patients who are not candidates for resective or ablative surgery. Deep brain stimulation (DBS), and responsive neurostimulation (RNS) are now widely used in clinical practice. Randomized trials and long-term studies demonstrate durable seizure reductions an...

Seizure Frequency Trends Over Time in Treatment-Resistant Focal Epilepsy - CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Findings from the HEP2 study imply that FTRE improves over time, ASM additions had low probability of achieving seizure freedom but contributed to seizure reduction, and device-treated participants exhibited similar seizure trajectories to those without devices. Whether improvements reflected the natural history of FTRE or active management remains unclear, but our fi...

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.