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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Cost and clinical outcomes of epilepsy surgery in a Brazilian public hospital: a health economic evaluation - CONCLUSION: The current study presents a transparent hospital-based micro-costing approach to estimate the direct costs of epilepsy surgery in a tertiary public setting of a middle-income country. By focusing on actual resource consumption and standardized clinical outcomes, it supports the clinical effectiveness and economic plausibility of epilepsy surgery within the Brazilian Public Healthca...

The challenge of localizing hyperkinetic seizures: timing matters! - CONCLUSION: The timing of HS onset and the duration of the seizures are informative in terms of localization. Earlier onset of hyperkinetic semiology and shorter duration may point to a frontal origin.

Minimal Reservoir Computing Generates Hippocampal-Inspired Stimulation for Open-Loop Modulation of Cortical Networks In Vitro - CONCLUSION: These results provide an open-loop in vitro proof of concept that a low-event, irregular stimulation schedule can be associated with heterogeneous modulation of cortical-network activity. Periodic stimulation at the same nominal mean event rate did not produce a statistically significant modulation under the conditions tested. The irregular schedule may contain timing-related proper...

"Fighting epilepsy without barriers": development and implementation of a nationwide indigenous-language epilepsy education campaign in rural Mexico - CONCLUSIONS: This study describes the successful development and nationwide implementation of a culturally and linguistically adapted epilepsy education initiative. Although broad geographic coverage and substantial modeled population reach were achieved, educational, behavioral, and clinical outcomes were not directly evaluated. Prospective community-based studies are needed to assess the long...

Effect of rapamycin on reversing post-ictal impairments in trace fear learning following a single brief convulsive seizure in rats - The postictal period, which immediately follows a seizure, is associated with several incapacitating symptoms or signs, such as psychosis, confusion, paresis, aphasia and memory loss. These symptoms can last from several minutes to even days and can have a negative impact on the quality of life for people living with epilepsy. However, there is a scarcity of data concerning the neurobiological ...

Drilling a hole to shorten the gap: an Aotearoa New Zealand therapeutic algorithm for status epilepticus in NEUROPA (Madrid, Spain) - Status epilepticus (SE) is a life-threatening neurological emergency defined by continuous seizure activity longer than 5 minutes or by clustered seizures without recovery of consciousness. When SE persists for over 30 minutes it is associated with irreversible brain damage. Conversely, most seizures are self-limited and do not require pharmacological treatment, while some seizures may not be e...

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.