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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 ...

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 ...

NEURELIS PRESENTS STUDIES ON SEIZURE CLUSTERS AT THE AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING - SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurelis, Inc., today announced details of its presentations at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting to be held December 6-10 in Los Angeles. The ...

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 ...

The little-known link between dementia and epilepsy - After he was diagnosed with “silent” epileptic seizures, doctors were able to treat his memory loss and confusion.

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medication adherence in epilepsy: Validation of the short medication adherence scale (SMAS-7) and mediation analysis of quality-of-life pathways - CONCLUSION: The SMAS-7 is a valid, reliable, and clinically useful tool for assessing medication adherence in adults with epilepsy. When each predictor was considered individually, medication adherence showed partial indirect associations linking financial wellbeing, mental health burden, and AED adverse effects with QOL; however, these associations were attenuated to near zero in a mutually ad...

A potential therapeutic role of unilateral anterior thalamic deep brain stimulation in epileptic spasms: A case report - OBJECTIVE: Deep brain stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT-DBS) is an established palliative therapy for drug-resistant focal epilepsy; however, its efficacy for epileptic spasms (ES) and the clinical utility of unilateral stimulation remain unclear. To address these issues, we report a case of drug-resistant focal epilepsy with ES treated with unilateral ANT-DBS.

Seizure prophylaxis versus epilepsy prevention after acquired brain injury: a cross-sectional clinicaltrials.gov registry analysis, 2000-2026 - CONCLUSIONS: The seizure management pipeline after acquired brain injury registered on ClinicalTrials.gov is concentrated in brain tumor/neurosurgery and TBI, with sparse representation of hemorrhagic stroke and few completed pharmacologic trials targeting late epilepsy prevention. The registry findings support a clearer separation of the objectives of acute seizure prophylaxis, treatment of ac...

Targeting glycine transporter type 1 (GlyT1) in epilepsy: Pathophysiological rationale and therapeutic perspectives - Glycine transporter type 1 (GlyT1) plays a crucial role in regulating extracellular glycine concentrations, thereby maintaining the balance between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission in the central nervous system. GlyT1 is expressed predominantly in astrocytes, as well as in neurons, throughout most regions of the mammalian brain, and dysregulation of glycinergic transmission has been ...

Comparison of oral prednisolone and ACTH therapies in infantile epileptic spasms syndrome: using BASED and E-Chess scores - CONCLUSION: High-dose oral prednisolone and ACTH therapies demonstrated comparable efficacy in reducing electrographic and clinical seizure burden in children with IESS. Improvement in epileptiform activity, as reflected by reductions in the BASED score, is strongly associated with better clinical outcomes. Additionally, a high pretreatment medication burden may serve as an early indicator of a...

The Mechanism of Long Non-coding RNA GABPB1-AS1/SLC12A5 Regulating Neuronal Ferroptosis in Epileptic Seizures - Epilepsy, a common neurological disorder, is distinguished by abnormal neuronal activity. This study explored the mechanism of the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) GABPB1-AS1/SLC12A5 pathway modulating neuronal ferroptosis during epileptic seizures. Loss- and gain-of-function approaches were conducted in a mouse model of kainic acid-induced seizures and glutamic acid (Glu)-treated HT22 neurons to e...

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.