Epilepsy News

Frequent Cannabis Use Tied to Greater Seizure Burden in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - Frequent cannabis users with drug-resistant epilepsy have more convulsive seizures and require more antiseizure medications, but researchers caution that the findings do not establish causation.

Frequent cannabis use tied to more severe epilepsy - Adults with hard-to-treat epilepsy who used cannabis most days had more than twice as many convulsive seizures per year and became resistant to antiseizure medications more quickly than nonusers, ...

Frequent cannabis users developed drug-resistant epilepsy 13 years earlier than non-users: study - A recent study published in 'Epilepsia' has found link between frequent recreational cannabis use and worsening seizures in patients with epilepsy.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every seizure can look and feel very different: NMU holds presentation on epilepsy and seizure training - The presentation hopes to clear up misconceptions regarding epilepsy and seizures as well as how to help those in need.

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 ...

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? - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Brain Changer for ADHDers? Neurofeedback’s Effect on Brain Waves - Neurofeedback has long been touted as a non-medical, non-invasive treatment for ADHD, but many experts remain skeptical. Unlike medication, neurofeedback hasn’t been tested in many well-designed, ...

Editorial: The network theory of epilepsy at twenty - No abstract

Anterior shoulder dislocation after tonic-clonic seizure - No abstract

Ketogenic diet fails to mitigate seizures and neuroinflammatory responses in a mouse model of virus-induced epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate intervention widely used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy, thought to reduce seizures through a combination of metabolic, neuronal, and microbiota-dependent mechanisms. Additionally, recent studies suggest that the anticonvulsant effects of KD require the gut microbiota, with taxa such as Akkermansia and Parabacteroides contribu...

How should etiology change the classification of the epilepsies? Report from the ILAE 2021-2025 Terminology Commission - The classification of the epilepsies has traditionally relied on clinical and electroencephalographic features. However, advancements in molecular genetics, neuroimaging, and our understanding of epilepsy pathophysiology necessitate a shift toward an etiology-based approach. Etiology-specific classification enables precision diagnosis and precision management by integrating genetic, structural,...

Passive Behavioral Patterns in Symptomatic WAG/Rij Rats: Dissociation From Absence Epilepsy and Sex-Dependent Link Between Early Fear Coping and Post-Stress Freezing - CONCLUSIONS: Four primary conclusions emerge from this study: (1) symptomatic WAG/Rij rats exhibit low levels of freezing in a safe environment; (2) sex differences exist in unsafe contexts, but not safe ones; (3) there is a sex-dependent association between early passive behavior and later freezing; (4) there is no relationship between the severity of absence epilepsy and passive behavioral pa...

Cardiovascular outcomes of enzyme-inducing anti-seizure medications: A real-world Asian cohort study - OBJECTIVE: To determine whether enzyme-inducing anti-seizure medications (EIASMs) are associated with differential risks of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and all-cause mortality compared with non-enzyme-inducing anti-seizure medications (NEIASMs) in adults with epilepsy.

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.