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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 ...

New genetic switch could improve gene therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy - Epilepsy affects more than 50 million people worldwide, making it one of the most common neurological disorders. Although medication helps many patients achieve seizure control, approximately ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...

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 ...

Stereo-electroencephalography-guided responsive neuromodulation: A propensity-matched cohort study - OBJECTIVE: The optimal pre-implantation evaluation and surgical targeting strategies for responsive neurostimulation (RNS) in patients with unresectable, drug-resistant focal epilepsy continue to be debated. Although stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG) is central to characterizing the seizure-onset zone, its role in preoperative testing for neuromodulation remains undefined. We examined whethe...

Comparative Seizure Outcomes of Vagus Nerve Stimulation, Deep Brain Stimulation, and Their Combination in Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome - OBJECTIVE: Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a severe treatment-resistant epilepsy. Although vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) and deep brain stimulation (DBS) are established therapies, comparative data and the impact of dual neuromodulation remain limited. We compared seizure outcomes across VNS, DBS, and combined DBS + VNS therapy in LGS.

Pharmacist-led management of suspected drug-provoked seizures and sequential antiseizure medication adverse reactions: a case report - CONCLUSION: This case underscores the indispensable role of clinical pharmacist engagement in identifying suspected drug-provoked seizures, applying structured causality assessment in the presence of competing confounders, and systematically managing complex, sequential ASM-related adverse reactions in high-risk patients.

Community Knowledge, Self-Reported Prevalence, and Management of Epilepsy in Lira District: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study - CONCLUSION: This study documents a high self-reported prevalence and poor community management for epilepsy in Lira district. Community-based self-reports, rather than clinically verified findings, highlight the need for validated community screening programs, training of community health workers, strengthening of referral pathways, and supporting clinically validated prevalence studies.

Quality of Life Among Patients With Epilepsy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study - CONCLUSION: Epilepsy was associated with a reduced QoL among patients in Jeddah, particularly in the domains of seizure worry, emotional well-being, and medication effects. These findings highlight the need for comprehensive management strategies that address not only seizure control but also the psychosocial aspects of epilepsy care.

Health literacy in patients with epilepsy: a narrative review of current status, influencing factors, and future directions - Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that imposes a significant burden on patients' physical and mental health, and low health literacy is closely associated with poor medication adherence, increased seizure frequency, and reduced quality of life in patients with epilepsy. Despite the growing number of studies on health literacy among patients with epilepsy, there is a lack of a c...

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.