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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 ...

Brain training with neurofeedback shows enhanced benefits on cognitive functions - Neurofeedback has been used for decades to reinforce healthy brain functions. With previous research reporting a positive correlation between enhanced brain activities during brain training and ...

What is neurofeedback therapy? - Neurofeedback therapy uses electrical sensors on the head to track brain reactions. The therapy helps with conditions like ADHD, anxiety, and insomnia by changing how the brain functions. Different ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...

Medication adherence in epilepsy: Validation of the short medication adherence scale (SMAS-7) and mediation analysis of quality-of-life pathways - CONCLUSION: The SMAS-7 is a valid, reliable, and clinically useful tool for assessing medication adherence in adults with epilepsy. When each predictor was considered individually, medication adherence showed partial indirect associations linking financial wellbeing, mental health burden, and AED adverse effects with QOL; however, these associations were attenuated to near zero in a mutually ad...

A potential therapeutic role of unilateral anterior thalamic deep brain stimulation in epileptic spasms: A case report - OBJECTIVE: Deep brain stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT-DBS) is an established palliative therapy for drug-resistant focal epilepsy; however, its efficacy for epileptic spasms (ES) and the clinical utility of unilateral stimulation remain unclear. To address these issues, we report a case of drug-resistant focal epilepsy with ES treated with unilateral ANT-DBS.

Seizure prophylaxis versus epilepsy prevention after acquired brain injury: a cross-sectional clinicaltrials.gov registry analysis, 2000-2026 - CONCLUSIONS: The seizure management pipeline after acquired brain injury registered on ClinicalTrials.gov is concentrated in brain tumor/neurosurgery and TBI, with sparse representation of hemorrhagic stroke and few completed pharmacologic trials targeting late epilepsy prevention. The registry findings support a clearer separation of the objectives of acute seizure prophylaxis, treatment of ac...

Targeting glycine transporter type 1 (GlyT1) in epilepsy: Pathophysiological rationale and therapeutic perspectives - Glycine transporter type 1 (GlyT1) plays a crucial role in regulating extracellular glycine concentrations, thereby maintaining the balance between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission in the central nervous system. GlyT1 is expressed predominantly in astrocytes, as well as in neurons, throughout most regions of the mammalian brain, and dysregulation of glycinergic transmission has been ...

Comparison of oral prednisolone and ACTH therapies in infantile epileptic spasms syndrome: using BASED and E-Chess scores - CONCLUSION: High-dose oral prednisolone and ACTH therapies demonstrated comparable efficacy in reducing electrographic and clinical seizure burden in children with IESS. Improvement in epileptiform activity, as reflected by reductions in the BASED score, is strongly associated with better clinical outcomes. Additionally, a high pretreatment medication burden may serve as an early indicator of a...

The Mechanism of Long Non-coding RNA GABPB1-AS1/SLC12A5 Regulating Neuronal Ferroptosis in Epileptic Seizures - Epilepsy, a common neurological disorder, is distinguished by abnormal neuronal activity. This study explored the mechanism of the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) GABPB1-AS1/SLC12A5 pathway modulating neuronal ferroptosis during epileptic seizures. Loss- and gain-of-function approaches were conducted in a mouse model of kainic acid-induced seizures and glutamic acid (Glu)-treated HT22 neurons to 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.