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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 ...

Epilepsy Caregiver Support: 5 Resources Every Family Should Know About - Epilepsy Foundation offers support for caregivers through SAGE, Epilepsy & Seizures Helpline, local services, and more. Navigate epilepsy with less stress.

Seizure or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A sudden episode of shaking, confusion, or loss of awareness can be frightening - but does it mean epilepsy? Understanding the difference between a seizure and epilepsy is crucial for timely treatment ...

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 ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

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 ...

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.

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: ...

Does Levetiracetam Improve Seizure Outcomes in Pediatric Epilepsy? - Although levetiracetam was associated with improved seizure outcomes compared with placebo in pediatric epilepsy, it did not demonstrate superior efficacy when compared with established active ...

Autonomic Network Signatures of Interictal Cardiorespiratory Dysfunction in Patients With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) co-occurs with interictal impairments in autonomic regulation and respiratory chemoreception, which have been related to higher risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Studies indicate that seizures lead to reorganization of central autonomic circuits extending beyond the temporal lobe. However, the relationship between brain ...

Neurodevelopmental Alterations in Inhibitory Interneurons of Cortex, Hippocampus, and Striatum of Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats - CONCLUSION: These findings demonstrate a temporally dynamic and region-specific reorganization of interneurons in GAERS that may underlie absence epileptogenesis.

Volumetric and functional connectivity alterations of the thalamus and thalamic nuclei groups in drug-resistant focal epilepsy: A 7T MRI study - CONCLUSIONS: Both structural and functional alterations of the thalamic nuclei groups in patients with DRE were observed. Ventral, medial, and posterior nuclei metrics show promise as imaging biomarkers of disease burden and seizure severity, thus encouraging further research into both structural and functional properties of thalamic nuclei in focal epilepsy.

Hippocampal Seizure-Related Burden is Associated with Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in Focal Epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: Memory impairment is a frequent comorbidity of focal epilepsy, incompletely explained by seizure frequency or structural pathology. Ictal and postictal hippocampal dysfunction disrupt memory processes, but their cumulative impact remains poorly quantified. This study introduces cumulative hippocampal seizure-related burden metrics and examines their association with long-term memory ...

Semiology of Opercular Epilepsies - In this systematic review, we aimed to characterize the semiology of 'pure' opercular seizures by identifying cases in which the epileptogenic zone was restricted to the operculum. Seventy patients from 24 articles were included and categorized into four anatomic groups: 11 frontal, 27 central, 14 parietal, and 18 temporal operculum cases. Across these four anatomic regions, we identified the f...

Operational definition, current and emerging pharmacotherapy, and clinical trial considerations in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies - No abstract

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.