Epilepsy News

Teacher Who Was Filmed Having a Seizure During Class Shares How She Navigates Epilepsy as an Educator (Exclusive) - Yareli Jessica Gijon experienced her first seizure at age 12 and was later diagnosed with epilepsy after years of uncertainty She has learned to manage her condition while teaching by recognizing ...

Teen with epilepsy dies after seizure leads to cardiac arrest: 'There was no warning' - “We had no idea she could die just like that,” James Hardwick said of his daughter Ellie ...

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, ...

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 ...

Northwell study reveals hope for significant seizure reduction in chronic epilepsy - MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the millions of people worldwide living with severe forms of epilepsy, some do not respond to medication and it can be difficult to find lasting relief. Patients ...

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 ...

New fMRI neurofeedback study trains the brain to reduce depressive rumination - Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is far from a cookie-cutter diagnosis. Different patients report suffering from different subsets of symptoms, yet most are ultimately prescribed the same first-line ...

Neurofeedback Trains Brain to Stop Depressive Rumination - A new study uses real-time fMRI neurofeedback to help depression patients reduce rumination by training specific brain circuits in a gamified environment.

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 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 ...

Neurofeedback gets you back in the zone - Researchers have shown -- for the first time -- that they can use online neurofeedback to modify an individual's arousal state to improve performance in a demanding sensory motor task, such as flying ...

Can the 5-SENSE score guide stereo-electroencephalography in children? First validation in a purely pediatric cohort - CONCLUSIONS: This is the first validation of the 5-SENSE score in a purely pediatric population. While it shows moderate predictive accuracy, a low score does not exclude the possibility that SEEG might still identify a focal area of seizure onset.

Optimal timing of PD-1 inhibitor immunotherapy administration to stereotactic radiosurgery in malignant gliomas: a propensity score-matched multi-institutional cohort study - CONCLUSIONS: Pre-SRS PD-1 inhibitor use was associated with more neurological deficits and lower survival, highlighting the need for prospective studies on optimal SRS immunotherapy timing in malignant gliomas.

Real-world outcomes of responsive neurostimulation in patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: A multicenter retrospective study - OBJECTIVE: Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) characterized by multiple seizure types and high resistance to antiseizure medication (ASM), often necessitating nonpharmacologic therapies, including neuromodulation. Responsive neurostimulation (RNS), a closed-loop brain-responsive neuromodulation device, has emerged as an adjunctive treatmen...

The outcomes of consecutive pregnancies in Australian women with epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: To investigate the extent to which seizure control and the occurrence of fetal malformation in an initial pregnancy can serve to anticipate the outcome in the next pregnancy.

Clinical and Molecular Spectrum of Proximal 16p11.2 BP4-5 Copy Number Variations: Insights From a Pediatric Cohort - Copy number variations (CNVs) at the proximal 16p11.2 BP4-BP5 locus are among the most well-characterized genomic regions associated with neurodevelopmental disorders. We aimed to define the clinical and molecular spectrum of these CNVs in a pediatric cohort. A total of 19 patients with pathogenic or likely pathogenic 16p11.2 BP4-BP5 CNVs were identified among 2200 individuals referred for chro...

Apoptosis and Glial Marker Profiles in Hippocampus and Amygdala of Medically Intractable Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - Medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy is associated with potential neuronal and glial damage in key brain structures, including the hippocampus and amygdala. This study aimed to examine apoptosis, caspase expression, and glial activation markers in these regions, and to evaluate their associations with clinical variables. Hippocampal and amygdala tissues from 17 patients with medically i...

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.