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Seizure first aid, epilepsy awareness bill signed into law - Legislation aimed at helping South Carolina workplaces respond appropriately when someone experiences a seizure has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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? - 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 Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

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 ...

Bioactivity-guided Isolation of Anticonvulsant and Anxiolytic Constituents from Stachys and Teucrium species - CONCLUSION: The findings provide experimental evidence supporting the traditional use of S. byzantina in neurological disorders and identify chlorogenic acid as a major bioactive constituent contributing to its anticonvulsant activity. These results highlight the therapeutic potential of S. byzantina as a source of plant-derived anticonvulsant and neuroprotective agents and warrant further phar...

Neuropsychological practice mirrors the changing landscape of epilepsy: Temporal trends in a level-4 epilepsy center from 1986 to 2024 - CONCLUSION: Over four decades, the referred population changed markedly: fewer surgical referrals, older patients, more new- and late-onset epilepsies, and more focused, less severe impairment. Neuropsychological practice shifted accordingly, from predominantly presurgical risk assessment toward targeted baseline testing and longitudinal monitoring of disease and treatment effects. The main fut...

Long-term seizure control with scheduled intravenous immunoglobulin in anti-GAD antibody-associated refractory temporal lobe epilepsy: a case report - No abstract

Impact of medium-chain triglyceride with and without ketogenic diet in the management of drug-resistant epilepsy: a systematic review - CONCLUSION: MCT-based interventions may offer a flexible option for DRE. Low-certainty evidence suggests that MCT KD may achieve seizure outcomes similar to CKD, but equivalence remains unproven. Evidence for MCT supplementation without a strict KD is very uncertain.

Keyhole approach for total corpus callosotomy - CONCLUSION: CC conducted via the KA was shown to be an effective technique for treating medically refractory epilepsy with a shorter incision, smaller craniotomy, less blood loss, shorter operative times, shorter hospital stays, and a lower incidence of complications. The seizure outcome of CC via the KA for medically refractory epilepsy is not inferior to that of the TA.

Direct cortical stimulation-evoked symptoms in the human temporal pole: A systematic review - The temporal pole represents a key node within temporolimbic networks and may contribute to seizure generation in temporal lobe epilepsy. Direct cortical stimulation (DCS), performed during intracranial presurgical evaluation, is a valuable method for delineating the seizure onset zone by reproducing electro-clinical features of a patient's habitual seizures. However, data specifically addressi...

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.