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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Can Monitoring Brain Waves Boost Mental Health? - Neurofeedback has promised a mental health revolution for decades. But is it effective? Credit...Tony Luong for The New York Times Supported by By David Dodge Twice a week, Stephanie, a 37-year-old ...

Novel neurofeedback technique enhances awareness of mind-wandering - Everyone knows the feeling. You are trying to concentrate on driving or studying, or paying attention in a boring meeting, but suddenly, you realize that you are thinking about something irrelevant to ...

Beyond Primary Epilepsy: Fahr's Syndrome Secondary to Congenital Parathyroid Agenesis Presenting With Generalised Seizures in a Young Adult - Symmetrical, bilateral intracranial calcifications, commonly involving the basal ganglia, constitute the characteristic features of Fahr's syndrome, which is an uncommon neurometabolic condition. Its incidence in conjunction with congenital parathyroid agenesis, however, has rarely been reported. The present case emphasises how crucial it is to identify the metabolic origins of intracranial cal...

Epilepsy in children and young people as a stigma throughout history: identifying cultural, religious and educational factors to design strategies for contemporary social inclusion - Epilepsy ranks among the most extensively stigmatized neurological conditions in recorded history, affecting an estimated 50 million people worldwide. This paper examines the historical transformation of stigma associated with epilepsy in children, adolescents, and young adults across cultural and chronological contexts ranging from Mesopotamian antiquity to the digital present. A qualitative d...

Common Data Elements for Preclinical High-Frequency Oscillations in Epilepsy - Normal brain function relies on coordinated oscillations within and across neural circuits. In epilepsy, disruption of these oscillations may reflect pathological excitability associated with seizure generation and/or the emergence of comorbidities. Among these oscillatory activities, high-frequency oscillations (HFOs, typically within 80-500 Hz) are increasingly considered promising electrophy...

Serum metabolomics identifies ganglioside dysregulation and pyruvate dehydrogenase complex-related metabolic disturbances in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy - CONCLUSION: The observed alterations in S-acetyldihydrolipoamide, HE-TDP, and SAM support their further investigation as candidate monitoring biomarkers and as metabolites potentially involved in therapeutically relevant pathways in DRE. The alterations observed in HE-TDP, SAM, GM2, PS, and PE generate the hypothesis that pathways involving thiamine-dependent energy metabolism, methylation, gan...

Surgically Induced Subacute Antiepileptic Effect of Vagus Nerve Stimulation before Stimulation Onset - CONCLUSION: VNS implantation was associated with a transient but significant postoperative seizure-free period even before stimulation onset, suggesting that surgery itself may induce short-term neuromodulatory modulation. This preliminary observation supports the presence of a surgically induced antiepileptic effect and warrants further prospective validation.

Human-artificial intelligence collaboration for comanaging epilepsy in real time - One-third of the world's 70 million people with epilepsy have seizures uncontrolled by medication, and implantable devices are a promising treatment. These devices can detect impending seizures, missed medication and impaired cognition, but, like most medical devices, they cannot share this information with patients in real time. This is a missed opportunity for devices to learn from clinical e...

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.