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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Camelback Recovery Launches Neurofeedback Therapy at Its Phoenix Treatment Center - Camelback Recovery has launched neurofeedback therapy at its Phoenix treatment center, expanding the care options available within its mental health and addiction programs. Phoenix, Arizona--(Newsfile ...

How virtual reality is changing brain-training technology - Integrating virtual reality into brain-training therapies can make the experience more enjoyable and engaging for users. A recent review published in the journal Applied Psychophysiology and ...

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 ...

Muse Treatment Publishes New Neurofeedback Resource Following 2026 Addiction Research and Changing Overdose Trends - LOS ANGELES, CA - September 14, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Muse Treatment has published a new educational resource ...

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 ...

Long-term clinical outcomes of the Adams modification to the anatomical hemispherectomy for refractory epilepsy: A case series and global systematic review - CONCLUSIONS: This study presents the largest systematic review of hemispherectomies to date and provides new insight into a surgical modification that influenced the evolution of modern epilepsy surgery.

Cerebral small vessel disease burden in late-onset epilepsy of unknown aetiology: insights from a prospective multicenter cohort - CONCLUSION: In this thoroughly characterized cohort, moderate-to-severe cSVD was infrequent, with age identified as the sole risk factor. These findings support the hypothesis that cSVD may serve as a biomarker of brain aging. Further research is required to substantiate these results.

Epilepsy-associated labor force exclusion in a multi-ethnic neurology cohort - CONCLUSIONS: In this single-center specialty-neurology cohort, epilepsy was associated with lower documented employment and higher recorded unemployment or disability than a contemporaneous comparator with other neurological conditions. These cross-sectional findings should be interpreted in the context of a clinically selected referral population and unmeasured neurological, functional, occupa...

Use of Purified Cannabidiol in Treatment-Resistant Pediatric Epilepsy: Beyond Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, Dravet Syndrome, and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex - CONCLUSIONS: Among our cohort of treatment-resistant pediatric epilepsy, purified CBD was efficacious in a broad range of pediatric epilepsies and was well tolerated as an adjunctive anti-seizure medication. This medication may be considered in pharmacoresistant pediatric epilepsies in conditions beyond its FDA-labeled indications.

Localizing value of ecstatic phenomenon in epilepsy surgery: A systematic review - OBJECTIVE: A systematic review was conducted to synthesize current anatomo-clinical correlations of ecstatic symptoms in focal epilepsy, aiming to provide evidence-based guidance for interpreting this ictal semiology during presurgical evaluation.

Prevalence of neuropsychiatric and seizure disorders in neurofibromatosis type 1: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is associated with intellectual disability (ID), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), emotional and seizure disorders. However, published prevalence estimates vary widely. The aim of this meta-analysis was to estimate the prevalence of ID, ASD, ADHD, epileptic seizures and emotional disorders in NF1. A systematic search ...

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.