Epilepsy News

Experts push epilepsy awareness during National Epilepsy Awareness Month - Each November, epilepsy advocates and medical professionals push to bring the conversation out of the shadows.

Many people have seizures. Here's why that doesn’t always mean epilepsy. - One of the most common causes of epilepsy is a structural brain abnormality. “Epilepsy can result from structural issues in the brain, such as brain tumors, brain injuries, brain infections or ...

Tyler woman looks to raise epilepsy awareness 3 years after passing of daughter - TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Susan Branin’s daughter, Micayla, was 5 years old when she had her first seizure. After a year of doctor’s visits, it was a visit to Cook’s Children’s in Fort Worth that finally ...

Their children depend on CBD to treat epilepsy. The government funding bill threatens to cut off their therapy - Lisa Smith’s 14-year-old daughter, Haley, had run out of options. She was having roughly two dozen seizures a day and had tried “17 or 18” different pharmaceutical regimens, different diets, and an ...

Why Focal Epilepsy Guidelines Only Tell Half the Story - This review contrasts the standard of care for focal epilepsy with the complex reality of managing non-lesional and drug-resistant cases.

Norton Children’s Hospital raises awareness of childhood epilepsy - Epilepsy can be a scary diagnosis, and in children, the diagnosis not only effects the patients but can also effect the parents as well. This month is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, and Norton ...

Organizations working to raise awareness for epilepsy throughout November - November is Epilepsy Awareness Month, when awareness is raised for a condition that impacts nearly three million adults in the U.S.

Women’s Health Wednesday: November is Epilepsy Awareness Month - Epilepsy affects 3.4 million people in this country according to the Epilepsy Foundation. Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain defined by the occurrence of recurrent ...

Sports And Epilepsy: Safe, Active Lifestyles Can Empower Young Patients - Regular physical activity is safe for most young people with epilepsy and can improve fitness, confidence, memory and even seizure control. With simple precautions, supportive coaching and awareness, ...

Physicians map patients' brain waves to personalize epilepsy treatment - Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new, personalized approach to deep brain stimulation (DBS) for people with drug-resistant epilepsy. By mapping each patient's unique brain wave patterns, the ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his hand, the kind you could use to tote a dirty bomb. Once inside my living room, he cracked open the case and removed a laptop, a ...

Neurofeedback as a Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease - April was Parkinson’s Awareness Month, which prompted me to share this story and an effective, yet little-known treatment for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Parkinson’s disease is a form of brain disorder, ...

How Neurofeedback Can Help Troubled Couples Get Back on the Same Wavelength - Dr. David Helfand (left) with a patient. The cap contains 19 electrodes that measure the brain’s electrical activity. Credit: Courtesy When a 10-year romantic relationship ended last spring for ...

Betsy DeVos backs a technique claiming to cure ADHD without medication — but the science is questionable - Every time Erin publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox! Enter your email By clicking “Sign up”, you agree to receive emails from Business ...

Behind the businesses: Explore Girly Pop’s new drive-thru; benefits of neurofeedback therapy at NeuroFit - Upper Michigan Today showcases Girly Pop's new, permanent drive-thru location; Tia Trudgeon shares her experience and results of neurofeedback therapy at NeuroFit in Marquette.

Long-term Impact of Cenobamate on Cognition in Patients with Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy: Outcomes from an Exploratory Real-World Study - CONCLUSION: In this exploratory, real-world study, we observed significant improvements in seizure frequency, concomitant ASM usage, and cognition at up to 18 months of cenobamate treatment in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy.

Thalamic Stimulation Induced Changes in Network Connectivity and Excitability in Epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: The effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) manifest across multiple timescales, spanning seconds to months, and involve direct electrical effects, neuroplasticity, and network reorganization. In epilepsy, the delayed impact of DBS on seizures presents challenges for optimization. Single-pulse stimulation and resulting brain stimulation evoked potentials (BSEPs) provide a means to as...

Type 28 spinocerebellar ataxia - We present a case of rare autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia type 28 caused by a heterozygous mutation of the AFG3L2 gene (SCA 28, SCA-AFG3L2, OMIM: 610246). The clinical presentation included a combination of visual and oculomotor disorders, extrapyramidal syndrome, epilepsy, and cerebellar ataxia. Female proband, 21 years old, 2 years of observation of the patient. Severe myopia has be...

Curriculum Innovation: How Effective Is a Telementoring Virtual Epilepsy Curriculum in Postgraduate Medical Education?: A Randomized-Controlled Educational Trial - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Epilepsy is a complex neurologic disorder requiring specialized knowledge for effective management. Poorly controlled seizures have a significant effect on people with epilepsy and health care systems. Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHOs) is a telementoring model designed to extend specialized care through virtual teaching. This study aims to ev...

Subicular Astrocytes Govern Seizure-Impaired Fear Memory - The mechanisms underlying seizure-associated cognitive impairment remain incompletely characterized. Emerging evidence positions the subiculum, a hippocampal output hub critically involved in both epileptic seizure and cognitive performance, as a putative nexus for this comorbidity. Here, it is demonstrated that astrocytic activation in the subiculum mediates seizure-induced fear memory deficit...

Epilepsy and mental health disorders: current challenges and potential solutions - Epilepsy affects ~50 million people worldwide and is associated with increased psychiatric comorbidities, including depression, anxiety, psychosis and suicidality. Despite this, current epilepsy management primarily focusses on seizure control, potentially overlooking mental health concerns. This article explores the challenges of integrating psychiatric care into epilepsy treatment and propose...

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.