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Bellevue Therapist Beverly Brashen, Ph.D. Offers Specialized Insomnia Treatment and Neurofeedback Therapy for Trauma and Chronic Sleep Disorders Across Greater Seattle - The integrative therapist at beverlybrashen.com combines neurofeedback, CBT-I, somatic therapy, trauma-informed care, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding The Role Of Neurofeedback Technology In Addressing ADHD - Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent challenge in today's educational and professional landscapes. Most of us are familiar with ADHD, either ...

Semaglutide and Risk of Adult-Onset Seizure: A Target Trial Emulation - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Adult-onset seizure reflects the burden of acquired brain insults, but established disease-modifying preventive strategies are limited. We evaluated whether semaglutide initiation is associated with a lower incidence of adult-onset seizure compared with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) and other glucose-lowering drugs (GLDs) in adults with type 2 dia...

Prognostic factors in vagus nerve stimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy. Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature - The aim of the present study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating prognostic factors of response to treatment with VNS implantation in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. We conducted a systematic review following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines to critically analyze relevant studies. The review question was formulated using the PICO framework: "In patients with drug-re...

Spontaneous orienting of untrained companion dogs naive to human epilepsy toward odor samples from an unfamiliar human in a controlled non-social paradigm: a proof-of-concept - CONCLUSIONS: Ictal odor may carry salience sufficient to influence initial attention in naïve dogs. However, findings are based on a single donor and require replication with multiple individuals to assess generalizability.

Psychosocial experiences are as important as medical factors in influencing the psychological functioning of children with epilepsy - Epilepsy can profoundly influence children's psychological functioning, yet the contextual factors shaping this experience remain insufficiently understood. Using data from 104 children with epilepsy, their parents, homeroom teachers, and 1829 classmates, this study examined factors affecting children's psychological functioning. A range of diagnostic, psychological, and social variables were a...

Network reprogramming after resection of occipital meningioangiomatosis: Evidence from multimodal localization and longitudinal fMRI - CONCLUSION: Multimodal findings localized the seizure onset to the right posterior region with widespread propagation. Postoperative rs-fMRI showed network changes consistent with partial normalization, paralleling sustained seizure freedom-though causality cannot be inferred from a single case.

"Homicide and Zonisamide": a review of the literature and illustrative case report on second and third generation antiseizure medications and psychiatric effects - CONCLUSION: Homicidal ideation should be contextualized within a spectrum of ASM-associated psychiatric adverse effects (PAEs). Zonisamide may have contributed to symptom emergence in a susceptible individual within a multifactorial neuropsychiatric context. To our knowledge, this is the first case report explicitly documenting homicidal ideation as an adverse event of zonisamide.

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.