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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 ...

Seizure action plans: More than management tools for epilepsy - Newswise — 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 ...

Circulating miRNAs may flag who develops epilepsy after a first seizure - A small exploratory study found 15 cell-free miRNAs in plasma that differed between patients whose first unprovoked seizure remained isolated and those who had a second seizure within two years.

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 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 ...

Elite athletes enhance their performance with 'neurofeedback'—and you can get a device for $99 - When you think of the training tools that professional athletes have at their disposal, high-tech sports equipment and state-of-the-art athletic facilities come to mind. But training for peak ...

There is something I want people struggling with ADHD to know - Today, please let me talk a little seriously about my work.I usually work in neurofeedback, which is a field that approaches how the brain functions.In doing so, there is something I have felt for a ...

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Seizure susceptibility following a single acute cluster of cortical spreading depolarizations in a rat model of traumatic brain injury - Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major risk factor for acquired epilepsy, yet the acute pathophysiologic events contributing to post-traumatic epileptogenesis remain poorly understood. Cortical spreading depolarizations (CSDs) occur in up to 60% of moderate-to-severe TBI patients and impose substantial metabolic and neurovascular stress on the injured brain, but their contribution to post-trau...

Elevated neuronal excitability and seizure susceptibility in a mouse model of SCN2A-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy - Pathogenic variants in SCN2A cause a spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders, including developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE). The patient-associated SCN2A-p.E430A variant selectively shifts voltage-dependence of activation, a mechanism predicted to enhance neuronal excitability. To investigate the functional consequences of the SCN2A-E430A variant, we generated the novel Scn2a^(E...

Severe and Unexpected Events After Acute Withdrawal of Tiapride Contaminating Vigabatrin: A Case Series - CONCLUSIONS: Our observations suggest that rapid withdrawal of tiapride, even administered in low doses, may result in significant and life-threatening deterioration in patients with epilepsy.

Long-term sequelae of transient global amnesia: A systematic review and meta-analysis - CONCLUSION: This meta-analysis finds that TGA has a reassuring pattern of complications. However, the low certainty of evidence indicates the current evidence base is insufficient to draw strong conclusions. Patients should be informed of low pooled proportions, but clinician advice should be tailored to individual significance of complications.

Efficacy and safety of cenobamate in the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis in adult, pediatric, and combined populations - CONCLUSION: In summary, this is the first comprehensive meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of CNB across pediatric, adult, and combined populations. Although pediatric point estimates were numerically similar to adult estimates, these findings are derived from indirect subgroup comparisons and should be interpreted cautiously. Most included studies were retrospective observationa...

Advances in Multidimensional Molecular Mechanisms of Epilepsy and Precision Therapy Strategies - CONCLUSIONS: Integrating multi-omics insights to construct a holistic precision medicine framework, spanning from molecular diagnosis to tailored network therapy, is fundamental for advancing epilepsy treatment. Future efforts must focus on translating this integrated understanding into effective clinical strategies to overcome therapeutic resistance.

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.