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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Factors associated with drug-resistant epilepsy in children with epilepsy: a retrospective cohort study - CONCLUSIONS: In this retrospective cohort, seizure type, history of status epilepticus, neurodevelopmental disorder, structural etiology, and older age at onset were independently associated with DRE after excluding treatment‑related variables. These findings suggest that true baseline independently associated variables of DRE are limited, and the diagnosis of DRE itself-failure of two adequate...

Association of first-month beta-hydroxybutyrate levels with subsequent ketogenic diet response in children with drug-resistant epilepsy: a prospective cohort study - CONCLUSION: Continuous first-month BHB showed no clear monotonic association with 3-month seizure reduction; an exploratory 3.0 mmol/L cutoff analysis similarly did not distinguish subsequent responders from non-responders. These findings describe the prognostic value of first-month BHB measured after individualized KDT titration and should not be interpreted as evidence regarding the benefit o...

Understanding MEG Source Profiles in Tuberous Sclerosis - CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates a localization concordance between MEG and sEEG that is related to postsurgical seizure outcomes in patients with TSC. However, no correlation between MEG source number, laterality (unilateral vs. bilateral), and surgical outcomes was found, supporting the continued use of MEG as a presurgical epilepsy tool in this patient population, no matter the number of...

Sustained Seizure Freedom After Stereo-Electroencephalography Without Definitive Intervention: Evidence for Network Modulation by Invasive EEG - Stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG) is a diagnostic technique used to localize seizure-onset networks in drug-resistant epilepsy, typically guiding resection, ablation, or neuromodulation. Sustained seizure freedom after diagnostic implantation alone is rarely described. We describe two patients who achieved long-term remission after sEEG monitoring without definitive surgical intervention. A ...

The Impact of Plasmapheresis on Serum Concentrations of Antiseizure Medications: A Systematic Review - Seizures are an important neurological manifestation of several autoimmune and antibody-mediated disorders and often require treatment with antiseizure medications (ASMs). Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is frequently used to treat these antibody-mediated conditions by removing circulating pathogenic factors. However, TPE is non-selective and may also remove protein-bound ASMs, particularly t...

Rotavirus-associated mild encephalitis with a reversible splenial lesion of the corpus callosum - No abstract

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.