Epilepsy News

What to know about epilepsy and seizure first aid - November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. Many people may already be aware of the condition from its prevalence in medical dramas, but that portrayal is often exaggerated and does not fully encapsulate ...

New tools map seizures in the brain, improve epilepsy treatment - Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that part ...

What Is Epilepsy Surgery? - Medications can control seizures in most people with epilepsy, but they don’t work for everyone. About 30% of people taking the drugs can’t tolerate the side effects. In some cases, brain surgery may ...

Women and Epilepsy - You could say that epilepsy doesn't discriminate. It strikes men and women at about the same rate. Men are slightly more likely to develop it than women. But that doesn't mean that it always affects ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his hand, the kind you could use to tote a dirty bomb. Once inside my living room, he cracked open the case and removed a laptop, a ...

What Is Neurofeedback? - Whenever I mention that neurofeedback helped me regain my life after my multiple brain injuries — or that I’m now a neurofeedback provider — the first reaction is to ask me, what is neurofeedback? I’m ...

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 ...

Can Monitoring Brain Waves Boost Mental Health? - Neurofeedback has promised a mental health revolution for decades. But is it effective? Credit...Tony Luong for The New York Times Supported by By David Dodge Twice a week, Stephanie, a 37-year-old ...

Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention - You sit in a chair, facing a computer screen, while a clinician sticks electrodes to your scalp with a viscous goop that takes days to wash out of your hair. Wires from the sensors connect to a ...

Optimal approach to standardized documentation in epilepsy clinics: A scoping review - Clear documentation and transfer of information between health care providers is key to ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care. Our aim was to determine how to optimize and standardize physician documentation in outpatient epilepsy clinics as well as to highlight challenges and barriers to their implementation. We conducted a scoping review of studies implementing standardization an...

Postictal self-removal of intracerebral electrodes during stereoelectroencephalography monitoring: A case series - Epilepsy surgery remains the most effective treatment for focal drug-resistant epilepsy, and stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) is increasingly used to define the epileptogenic-zone network (EZN) and guide curative or palliative interventions. While SEEG is considered a safe invasive procedure, adverse events arising during monitoring itself are rarely described. We report three exceptional ca...

Rhythmic Sensory Stimulation and Music-Based Interventions in Focal Epilepsy: Clinical Evidence, Mechanistic Rationale, and Digital Perspectives-A Narrative Review - CONCLUSIONS: Music-based and rhythmic sensory interventions represent a promising but underexplored adjunctive approach for focal epilepsy. Their effectiveness likely depends on individual network characteristics and on the structure of the applied rhythm. Digital integration may enhance personalization and adherence. Rigorous clinical trials and mechanistic studies are required to define optim...

Feeding-Triggered Seizures in a Newborn with AP1S1-Related MEDNIK Syndrome: Expanding the Phenotype of a Hyper-Rare Disease - MEDNIK syndrome (Mental Retardation, Enteropathy, Deafness, Neuropathy, Ichthyosis and Keratodermia) is a severe hyper-rare condition resulting from the biallelic variants in the AP1S1 gene, implicated in intracellular trafficking and copper homeostasis. Only 18 affected individuals (seven AP1S1 pathogenic variants overall) have been reported to date, with a high early lethality due to life-thr...

A Method for Explainable Epileptic Seizure Detection Through Wavelet Transforms Obtained by Electroencephalogram-Based Audio Recordings - Accurate classification of brain activity from electroencephalogram signals is essential for diagnosing neurological disorders such as epilepsy. In this paper, we propose an explainable deep learning method for epileptic seizure detection. The proposed approach converts electroencephalogram signals into audio waveforms, which are then transformed into time-frequency representations using two di...

Modular Model of Neuronal Activity That Captures the Dynamics of Main Molecular Targets of Antiepileptic Drugs - This paper presents a modular mathematical model of neuronal activity, designed to simulate the dynamics of main molecular targets of antiepileptic drugs and their pharmacological effects. The model was developed based on several existing synaptic transmission models that capture cellular processes crucial to the pathology of epilepsy. It incorporates the primary molecular mechanisms involved 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.