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 ...

Modifiable Factors Responsible for Most Epilepsy Relapses - In patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy, nearly 70% of seizure relapses are linked to potentially modifiable factors, including poor adherence and inadequate ASM dosing, rather than drug resistance.

New tools map seizures in the brain, improve epilepsy treatment - Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that part ...

Seizure Burden in Resistant Epilepsy May Ease With the Tincture of Time - Nearly 70% of patients with focal treatment-resistant epilepsy (FTRE) experience fewer seizures over time, new results of a multicenter study showed. However, the improvements occurred independent of ...

People with focal epilepsy often have seizures while driving before a diagnosis - Prior to being diagnosed with epilepsy, 5% of people with a type of epilepsy called focal epilepsy had a seizure while driving, according to a new study published in the June 7, 2023, online issue of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mountain Vista Psychology offers neurofeedback services in Englewood to help individuals with anxiety and depression. - Mountain Vista Psychology provides neurofeedback services in Englewood to support anxiety and depression recovery ...

BRYM secures €650K to develop wearable neurofeedback platform - Stockholm-based neurotech startup BRYM is developing a wearable neurofeedback platform designed to help users improve focus and cognitive performance through EEG-based brain training.

Utility of repeat stereotactic EEG in pediatric patients with tuberous sclerosis - OBJECTIVE: Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare genetic disorder associated with early-onset drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) secondary to intracranial tubers. Many patients undergo stereo-EEG (sEEG) for seizure onset localization, sometimes requiring multiple sEEGs and subsequent epilepsy surgeries. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of single versus multiple sEEGs on seizure outcome...

Epilepsy-Related Psychosis in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy With Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus and Difficult Antipsychotic Titration: A Case Report - INTRODUCTION: Psychosis in epilepsy may be difficult to diagnose when altered consciousness, antiseizure medication changes, and psychotropic adverse effects coexist.

Enhancing decision-making in surgery for a large temporocorneal meningioma through an explainable human-AI collaboration: a case report - CONCLUSION: This case demonstrates that explainable AI can enhance preoperative planning and surgical confidence by improving visualization and risk anticipation. However, its role remains supportive, as surgical outcomes continue to depend primarily on tumor characteristics and surgical expertise. The report also highlights the importance of accurate differentiation between PNES and epilepsy i...

An edge-AI enabled wearable platform for real-time epileptic seizure detection with geolocated alerting - Epilepsy remains a major global health concern, particularly in regions where continuous medical monitoring is difficult to implement. This study introduces a wearable system powered by edge-based artificial intelligence, designed to detect epileptic seizures in real time. The device integrates multiple sensors-accelerometers for motion tracking, photoplethysmography (PPG) for cardiovascular mo...

Silymarin Reverses Seizure-Precipitating Effects of Alcohol and Associated Psychiatric Comorbidities, and Neurotoxicity in Pentylenetetrazol Pre-Kindled Mice - Heavy alcohol consumption has multiple negative cognitive, psychological, and neurobiological consequences for people with epilepsy. However, the psychopharmacological interactions remain unclear with limited therapeutic interventions. In this study, we investigated the diverse impact of alcohol on experimental simulated pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures and alcohol-use disorder, and the effec...

Neurologists' Views on the Management of Uncontrolled Epilepsy in Spain: A Preliminary Survey - CONCLUSION: There is a discrepancy between neurologists' treatment goals and their acceptance of persistent seizures in Spanish neurological practice. Several factors may be limiting the achievement of early seizure freedom, including short patient consultations and a lack of familiarity with new treatments, especially among epilepsy non-specialists. Addressing these barriers could improve outc...

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.