Epilepsy News

Seizure first aid, epilepsy awareness bill signed into law - Legislation aimed at helping South Carolina workplaces respond appropriately when someone experiences a seizure has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.

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 ...

Using Seizure-Risk Forecasts to ID Best Time for Epilepsy Monitoring - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― Scheduling video-electroencephalography (vEEG) monitoring on the basis of personalized seizure risk forecasts may improve diagnostic accuracy, emerging research suggests. In a ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Direct cortical stimulation-evoked symptoms in the human temporal pole: A systematic review - The temporal pole represents a key node within temporolimbic networks and may contribute to seizure generation in temporal lobe epilepsy. Direct cortical stimulation (DCS), performed during intracranial presurgical evaluation, is a valuable method for delineating the seizure onset zone by reproducing electro-clinical features of a patient's habitual seizures. However, data specifically addressi...

Variability in recommending epilepsy surgery across Level IV epilepsy centers in the United States - OBJECTIVE: Surgery is an effective, yet underutilized treatment for children with drug-resistant epilepsy. Although predictors of surgical outcomes are well described, the decision to recommend surgery varies by institution. We aim to evaluate the rates of not recommending surgery, identify associated patient characteristics, and quantify variability across centers.

Peri-ictal Hyperperfusion Revealed by Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion Images in 2 Patients with Post-aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Epilepsy and Associated Old Infarction in the Middle Cerebra... - To make a pathophysiological diagnosis of post-aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage epilepsy, which has complex pathologies, in a neuro-emergency setting, peri-ictal magnetic resonance imaging including arterial spin labeling perfusion images was conducted in 2 patients with associated old infarction due to vasospasm in the middle cerebral artery territory. In patient 1, who had a localized infar...

Ketogenic Diet-Mediated Immunomodulation for Prevention of Epilepsia Partialis Continua in Rasmussen's Encephalitis: Review and Case Study - CONCLUSION: This case highlights the potential therapeutic benefit of combining immunomodulatory therapy with ketogenic dietary intervention in adult-onset RE. Beyond its established role in refractory epilepsy, ketogenic therapy may exert anti-inflammatory and neurometabolic effects through modulation of microglial activation, cytokine signaling, and cellular metabolism pathways implicated in ...

Characteristics of subclinical seizures in an adult epilepsy population-a retrospective observational study - CONCLUSION: SCSs are present in approximately one quarter of presurgical epilepsy patients and show moderate concordance with CS and IED localization. Their distinct localization profile and frequent containment within CS zones support their value as complementary information in epilepsy care.

Directed graph neural networks with partial directed coherence for seizure prediction and epileptogenic network characterization - While electroencephalography (EEG) analyses using undirected connectivity are well-established for seizure prediction and epileptogenic zone (EZ) network characterization, the complementary value of directed connectivity in graph neural networks (GNNs) remains unclear. We integrated partial directed coherence (PDC) graphs into a Digraph Inception Convolutional Network (DiGCN) to preserve direct...

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.