Epilepsy News

How to Choose a Protective Helmet for Seizures - For seizures that cause falls, a protective helmet helps prevent injury. A good seizure helmet should provide safety and comfort specific to your child's needs.

Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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, ...

Why Early Detection of Seizures and Epilepsy Is so Important - For parents, a child having a seizure is one of the most frightening experiences imaginable. While many childhood seizures are brief and isolated, others are more serious and persistent. To make the ...

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 ...

Mental health clinic expands to Henderson with neurofeedback treatment - A local mental health provider celebrated its expansion to Henderson Tuesday.

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 ...

Understanding The Role Of Neurofeedback Technology In Addressing ADHD - Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent challenge in today's educational and professional landscapes. Most of us are familiar with ADHD, either ...

How Can Neurofeedback Therapy Help Language and Processing Development? - From birth on, parents can count on their children to be individuals who grow and develop at their own pace. But from a developmental perspective, there are timeframes when kids typically achieve ...

TRPV4 is involved in NLRP3 and NLRP1 inflammasomes activation after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus in mice : Concise title: TRPV4-mediated inflammasome activation in epilepsy - No abstract

Prevalence and predictors of seizure cluster in emergency care: Insights from a tertiary hospital in Bogota, Colombia - CONCLUSIONS: SC are common in emergency departments, with a prevalence of 21.2% in this study. They most frequently affect younger patients, individuals with history of epilepsy, and those receiving ≥ 3 antiseizure medications. In this context, the main etiology was poor treatment adherence.

Role of video-electroencephalography in the presurgical evaluation of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy due to mesial temporal sclerosis: A retrospective reliability study - CONCLUSIONS: Prolonged vEEG may be required to identify seizure foci localization in patients with evidence of mesial temporal sclerosis on MRI; however, substantial inter-rater variability (kappa = 0.245) suggests the need for standardized criteria and outcome validation before changing current practice. Further studies with surgical outcomes are warranted to develop a validated scoring system...

Association of weather with seizure incidence in children with drug-resistant epilepsy: A multicenter prospective observational study - CONCLUSION: Lower atmospheric pressure, greater atmospheric variations, lower temperatures, and higher humidity may increase seizure risk in DRE. Incorporating these factors into the preventive education of parents of patients with DRE could improve self-management.

Case report - Animal abuse by condition falsification in a dog with epileptic seizures caused by citalopram poisoning - Animal abuse by condition falsification so far has received little scientific attention. This particular form of animal abuse is characterized by an animal caretaker's infliction of harm to an animal by feigning a condition with the purpose to get attention or sympathy from others, such as veterinary personnel. We report the case of a young dog with early onset and recurrent epileptic seizures ...

Automated MRI-based atrophy patterns to improve the diagnosis of generalized epilepsies in outpatient care - BACKGROUND: Even after complete anamnestic, electroencephalographic and brain imaging evaluation, diagnostic uncertainty may persist in differentiating generalized genetic epilepsies (GGE) from focal epilepsies (FE), leading to errors in diagnosis and treatment. Based on recent findings about network-based patterns of progressive atrophy in most forms of epilepsy, we sought to evaluate the valu...

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.