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In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Epileptic seizures alter sleep by prolonging the stage that's central to memory formation, potentially predisposing the brain to "remember" how to trigger subsequent seizures more easily, a small ...

11 Sleep and Epilepsy Frequently Asked Questions - Quality sleep is critical for people living with epilepsy to avoid triggering seizures. Poor sleep can affect seizures, memory, and more.

Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure - More than 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy, so it is a relatively common diagnosis. In fact, it is the fourth-most common neurologic condition in the world. November is National ...

First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model expedites access to specialists after a first seizure. The mean time between the referral and the ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

Understanding epilepsy: Seven ways to respond to an epileptic seizure - At the forefront of epilepsy research and treatment is the University of Alabama at Birmingham Epilepsy Center, a collaborative initiative between the UAB Department of Neurology and UAB Hospital, ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is neurofeedback? Video game-like therapy being used to treat anxiety, ADHD and more - It’s like a gym for your brain. As issues like anxiety, depression and restless sleep have spiked during the pandemic, some people are turning to neurofeedback, a kind of gym for the brain. It’s a ...

Help managing ADHD, anxiety, and depression with Neurofeedback Therapy - SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Good Things Utah) – for some people, managing symptoms of trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and sleep issues can result in professional after professional all trying ...

Neurofeedback is the newest mental health hack among entrepreneurs. Here’s why - Running a business can be an exhilarating and rewarding journey, but it can also bring a unique set of stressors. While the beginning stages of a business can be exciting and feel full of ...

Novel neurofeedback technique enhances awareness of mind-wandering - Everyone knows the feeling. You are trying to concentrate on driving or studying, or paying attention in a boring meeting, but suddenly, you realize that you are thinking about something irrelevant to ...

Low Frequency Stimulation and Seizure Induction in Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With Drug Resistant Epilepsy Undergoing Stereoelectroencephalography - CONCLUSIONS: LFS is well tolerated in pediatric and young adult DRE patients and in one fourth of cases identifies potential additional nodes of the seizure network. These data, consistent with adult studies, affirm that LFS has a role complementing HFS in evaluating pediatric DRE patients undergoing stereoelectroencephalography.

Perturbation-induced responses improved seizure forecasting in epileptic rats - OBJECTIVE: The unpredictability of seizures is one of the most challenging aspects of uncontrolled epilepsy for patients. Prior work forecasting seizure risk has measured changes in passive intracranial electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, but currently, there are no such clinical devices available. Based upon dynamical theory, we hypothesized that the response of the brain to perturbing stim...

Semiology matters: diagnosing functional seizures beyond the EEG - Not available.

Neuroanatomical localization of faciobrachial dystonic seizures in LGI1-antibody encephalitis - Faciobrachial dystonic seizures (FBDS), paroxysmal dizziness spells, and thermal sensory attacks are highly frequent and stereotypic phenomena experienced in leucine-rich glioma inactivated 1 (LGI1)-antibody encephalitis. This study aims to describe the electrophysiologic mechanism underlying these pathognomonic symptoms. LGI1-antibody encephalitis patients with active symptoms were enrolled fr...

Thalamic Responsive Neurostimulation After Anatomic Hemispherectomy With Direct Targeting - Nearly one-third of patients with epilepsy are unable to achieve adequate seizure control with medication alone. Responsive neurostimulation (RNS) of thalamic nuclei is a relatively new option for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). Here the authors present a complex case of a pediatric patient with DRE secondary to left hemimegencephaly after anatomic hemispherectomy and vagal nerv...

Multi-target neuroprotection of carbon dots derived from Crinis Carbonisatus in multiple acute epilepsy model - BACKGROUND: Epilepsy remains a prevalent neurological disorder characterized by spontaneous, recurrent seizures. Despite available treatments, there is a critical lack of safe and effective strategies for long-term management and control. Crinis Carbonisatus (CrCi), the carbonized product of human hair, has been utilized for millennia to manage epilepsy and hemorrhagic disorders in Traditional ...

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.