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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 ...

Study: Epilepsy patients benefit from structured 'seizure action plans' - A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status. These ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hyperfunction of PSD-95 leads to hyperexcitability and cognitive abnormalities in MEF2C haploinsufficiency - Myocyte enhancer factor 2C (MEF2C) is a transcription factor critical for brain circuit development and cognitive behavior. The loss of one copy of MEF2C leads to MEF2C haploinsufficiency syndrome (MCHS), a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by intellectual disability, epilepsy, and behavioral phenotypes associated with autism spectrum disorders. Given that numerous genes are regulated b...

Spectrally-resolved transfer entropy in resting-state SEEG reveals epileptogenic and non-epileptogenic communication in adults and children with refractory epilepsy - Objective. To characterise directed, frequency-resolved communication between seizure onset zone (SOZ) and non-involved zone (NIZ) regions in resting-state stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) from adults and children with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE).Approach. We analysed retrospective SEEG from 21 adults and 18 paediatric patients who underwent focal resective surgery. Channels were grouped ...

Network reorganization of anterograde thalamic connectivity during non-periodic patterned deep brain stimulation - Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT) can reduce seizures in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. However, seizure freedom is rare, and there is no early response biomarker to predict long-term seizure suppression. To evaluate a candidate short-term biomarker of therapeutic response to DBS, we studied 18-min trials of ANT stimulation in patients with drug-...

Acute Intrapartum Seizure in a Pregnant Woman with Epilepsy Receiving Divalproex: Maternal-Fetal Consequences and Emergency Obstetric Management-A Case Report - CONCLUSION: Careful multidisciplinary management of epilepsy during pregnancy is essential. Breakthrough seizures during labor may lead to acute fetal compromise and require emergency delivery. Close antenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum monitoring is crucial to optimize maternal and neonatal outcomes.

Cardiac repolarization abnormalities and SUDEP risk in epilepsy - BACKGROUND: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the leading cause of epilepsy-related mortality, yet its mechanisms remain complex and multifactorial. Cardiac repolarization abnormalities are proposed biomarkers, but evidence is scarce, especially in low- and middle-income countries where epilepsy is highly prevalent.

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: An Italian expert consensus statement on risk, mechanisms, prevention, and therapeutic strategies - OBJECTIVE: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a leading cause of premature mortality in people with epilepsy, particularly in those with tonic-clonic seizures (TCSs), developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs), and drug-resistant epilepsy. Although awareness of SUDEP has increased, major uncertainties remain regarding individualized risk stratification, mechanistic interpre...

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.