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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 ...

What is epilepsy? - Epilepsy varies greatly and affects everyone differently. If you or someone you know has epilepsy, you may find it helpful to learn more. Here are some basic facts about epilepsy and where to get more ...

Epilepsy treatment - Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or 'pulse generator') which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that the memory-forming stage of sleep could be key for understanding epileptic seizures. . | Credit: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention - You sit in a chair, facing a computer screen, while a clinician sticks electrodes to your scalp with a viscous goop that takes days to wash out of your hair. Wires from the sensors connect to a ...

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 ...

A scoping review of the frequency and clinical presentation of Taenia solium taeniasis and human cysticercosis/neurocysticercosis in Papua, Indonesia from 1970 to 2024 - CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Improving access to gold-standard CT imaging for NCC diagnosis, adopting standardized criteria for NCC diagnosis and management, and targeted public health interventions are urgently needed to reduce the burden of T. solium in Papua.

Artificial Intelligence for Improving the Management of People With Epilepsy in Low-and-Middle Income Countries - CONCLUSIONS: AI-driven approaches demonstrate feasibility for addressing diagnostic and monitoring gaps in resource-limited settings. However, implementation faces substantial challenges including infrastructure constraints, limited digital literacy, ethical considerations, and sociocultural factors. Successful deployment requires validation with large locally relevant datasets, context-adapted...

Enhancing the cognitive, psychological, and social outcomes of adults undergoing surgery for focal drug-resistant epilepsy: protocol for a scoping review - INTRODUCTION: Achieving seizure control remains a primary objective of epilepsy surgery but other important patient-centred outcomes should not be overlooked. Despite the need for more holistic approaches supporting well-being over and above seizure control, scant empirical research has identified effective interventions aimed at improving adults' cognitive, psychological, and/or social outcome...

The translocator protein antagonist ONO-2952 attenuates neuroinflammation and neuronal apoptosis in an epilepsy rat model - Epilepsy is a globally prevalent chronic neurological disorder, and translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO)-mediated neuroinflammation plays a critical role in epilepsy pathogenesis. This study aimed to explore the effect of the translocator protein 18 kDa antagonist ONO-2952 on neuroinflammation and cognitive function in epilepsy by establishing a mature epileptic rat model, which was divided into ...

A dual-modality workflow for quantifying microvascular structure in human temporal lobe epilepsy - Microvascular remodeling is implicated in the pathophysiology of drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). However, characterizing these changes in adult human surgical tissue is methodologically limited by the accumulation of lipofuscin, an autofluorescent pigment that obscures microvascular structures and confounds standard automated quantification. To address this, we developed a dual-mod...

LINAC-based stereotactic radiosurgery targeting the hippocampus in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: a single-center case series - CONCLUSIONS: LINAC-based stereotactic radiosurgery targeting the hippocampal head and anterior body achieved a clinically meaningful reduction in seizure frequency in selected patients with drug-resistant MTLE. However, complete seizure freedom was not achieved, and delayed adverse events were observed.

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.