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 ...

Epilepsy comes out of nowhere: Heartland neurologist discusses misconceptions about seizures - Dr. Mark Farrenburg said he wants people to know the difference between having a seizure and an epilepsy diagnosis this Seizure Awareness month.

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 ...

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 ...

Systematic Review Finds Few Active Controlled Benefits in Athlete Neurofeedback Studies - A systematic review of 56 athletic neurofeedback studies reveals that while positive outcomes are widely reported, only 18 percent demonstrate benefits over active control groups.

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 ...

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 Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

Clinical Risk Factors for Suicide in Persons With Epilepsy: A Nationwide Population-Based Case-Control Study - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Individuals with epilepsy face an elevated risk of suicide, but risk factors for suicide remain incompletely understood. We conducted a nationwide case-control study in Sweden to investigate clinical characteristics associated with suicide risk in persons with epilepsy.

Artificial Intelligence-Based Neonatal Seizure Detection: A Pragmatic Evaluation of Clinical Performance Tradeoffs in Clinical EEG - CONCLUSIONS: AI-based NSDs demonstrated high infant-level sensitivity but different tradeoffs between seizure-level detection and alarm burden. These findings highlight how AI tools may augment clinical EEG workflows and support earlier seizure recognition, while underscoring the need for evaluation under real-world conditions to guide safe and effective implementation.

A Dual-Branch Model based Federated Learning Framework for Seizure-Type Classification - Accurate seizure-type identification is of great significance for epilepsy patient treatment and management. Manual electroencephalogram (EEG) data analysis, the traditional method, is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and subjective. While deep learning has shown great potential in medical diagnosis, it faces privacy and data silo challenges in handling multi-center EEG data. To address these i...

Beware of Tall Stature: Growth Hormone Excess Associated with a Rare Parasellar Extra-Axial Tumour-Diagnostic and Management Challenges in a Resource-Limited Setting - CONCLUSION: GH excess and gigantism can arise secondary to parasellar pathology rather than intrinsic pituitary disease, with neurological features like refractory epilepsy occasionally preceding classic endocrine manifestations. Rapid adolescent growth paired with neurological signs warrants urgent structural neuroimaging. Meticulous perioperative pituitary monitoring and early multidisciplina...

Antiseizure Medication Dispensing Before and After Initiation of Antidementia Medicines: A Population-Based Matched Cohort Study - CONCLUSIONS: ASM dispensing, most noticeably valproate, was higher in people with antidementia medicine dispensing than in controls, modestly before and markedly after initiation. Behavioural and psychiatric indications seem to predominate, with a smaller seizure-related contribution possibly beginning before treatment, although dispensing data cannot confirm indications. Valproate use warrants...

Early benzodiazepine treatment and electrographic seizures after febrile status epilepticus - No abstract

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.