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Mental health clinic expands to Henderson with neurofeedback treatment -
LAS VEGAS ( FOX5) — A local mental health provider celebrated its expansion to Henderson Tuesday. The Integrative Wellness Clinic of Nevada cut the ribbon on its new location. The clinic says it is ...
How Neurofeedback Can Help Troubled Couples Get Back on the Same Wavelength - Dr. David Helfand (left) with a patient. The cap contains 19 electrodes that measure the brain’s electrical activity. Credit: Courtesy When a 10-year romantic relationship ended last spring for ...
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 ...
How Can Neurofeedback Therapy Help Language and Processing Development? - From birth on, parents can count on their children to be individuals who grow and develop at their own pace. But from a developmental perspective, there are timeframes when kids typically achieve ...
Neurofeedback gets you back in the zone - Researchers have shown -- for the first time -- that they can use online neurofeedback to modify an individual's arousal state to improve performance in a demanding sensory motor task, such as flying ...
How Neurofeedback Can Help Troubled Couples Get Back on the Same Wavelength - Dr. David Helfand (left) with a patient. The cap contains 19 electrodes that measure the brain’s electrical activity. Credit: Courtesy When a 10-year romantic relationship ended last spring for ...
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 ...
How Can Neurofeedback Therapy Help Language and Processing Development? - From birth on, parents can count on their children to be individuals who grow and develop at their own pace. But from a developmental perspective, there are timeframes when kids typically achieve ...
Neurofeedback gets you back in the zone - Researchers have shown -- for the first time -- that they can use online neurofeedback to modify an individual's arousal state to improve performance in a demanding sensory motor task, such as flying ...
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Band gap energy shift as a biophysical marker of Puerarin's neuroprotective role in epilepsy-induced demyelination -
The study aims to determine the neuroprotective effect of Puerarin, extracted from Pueraria lobata roots, against pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-induced epileptic seizures and concomitant demyelination and low conductance through diffuse reflectance spectroscopic (DRS) technique. Mice groups (n = 12) were pretreated with vehicle and Puerarin (100 mg kg-1, intraperitoneal (i.p.)) for 42 days (alternat...
Patterns of Response to Treatment and Outcome of Childhood Absence Epilepsy: A Multicenter Study From Saudi Arabia - CONCLUSIONS: CAE patients in Saudi Arabian tertiary care centers demonstrate favorable outcomes, with high response rates with monotherapy. Early diagnosis and treatment may improve prognosis, as suggested by the trend toward higher recurrence rates in patients diagnosed at older ages.
The efficacy and tolerability of lacosamide adjunctive therapy in children with drug-refractory epilepsy: A nationwide Turkish cohort study - CONCLUSIONS: LCM adjunctive therapy was associated with favorable electro-clinical outcomes and good tolerability across a broad spectrum of DREs with DEEs or without DEEs in childhood.
Vagus nerve stimulation as an adjunctive therapy for super-refractory status epilepticus including NORSE: a retrospective cohort study - CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that VNS is likely a safe addition to the established treatment for SRSE. However, given the retrospective and uncontrolled design, efficacy of VNS cannot be determined. Prospective controlled studies are needed to assess clinical benefit and to define optimal implantation timing, titration strategies, and short-and long-term outcomes, including post-NORSE epil...
Semiologic and localizing value of forced thinking in focal seizures - Forced thinking is a rare ictal phenomenon characterized by the sudden intrusion of involuntary thoughts at seizure onset. Historically classified as a psychic aura and variably associated with frontal or temporal lobe epilepsy, its semiologic definition and localizing value remain debated, largely due to the scarcity of systematic studies. We conducted a retrospective review of a tertiary epil...
Epilepsy severity, parental knowledge, and health-related quality of life in children with epilepsy and their parents - CONCLUSIONS: Epilepsy severity and parental social knowledge are key factors associated with the HRQoL of CwE and their parents. These findings underscore the importance of comprehensive, family-centered care that integrates clinical management with targeted parental education to improve HRQoL outcomes for families affected by childhood epilepsy.
Patterns of Response to Treatment and Outcome of Childhood Absence Epilepsy: A Multicenter Study From Saudi Arabia - CONCLUSIONS: CAE patients in Saudi Arabian tertiary care centers demonstrate favorable outcomes, with high response rates with monotherapy. Early diagnosis and treatment may improve prognosis, as suggested by the trend toward higher recurrence rates in patients diagnosed at older ages.
The efficacy and tolerability of lacosamide adjunctive therapy in children with drug-refractory epilepsy: A nationwide Turkish cohort study - CONCLUSIONS: LCM adjunctive therapy was associated with favorable electro-clinical outcomes and good tolerability across a broad spectrum of DREs with DEEs or without DEEs in childhood.
Vagus nerve stimulation as an adjunctive therapy for super-refractory status epilepticus including NORSE: a retrospective cohort study - CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that VNS is likely a safe addition to the established treatment for SRSE. However, given the retrospective and uncontrolled design, efficacy of VNS cannot be determined. Prospective controlled studies are needed to assess clinical benefit and to define optimal implantation timing, titration strategies, and short-and long-term outcomes, including post-NORSE epil...
Semiologic and localizing value of forced thinking in focal seizures - Forced thinking is a rare ictal phenomenon characterized by the sudden intrusion of involuntary thoughts at seizure onset. Historically classified as a psychic aura and variably associated with frontal or temporal lobe epilepsy, its semiologic definition and localizing value remain debated, largely due to the scarcity of systematic studies. We conducted a retrospective review of a tertiary epil...
Epilepsy severity, parental knowledge, and health-related quality of life in children with epilepsy and their parents - CONCLUSIONS: Epilepsy severity and parental social knowledge are key factors associated with the HRQoL of CwE and their parents. These findings underscore the importance of comprehensive, family-centered care that integrates clinical management with targeted parental education to improve HRQoL outcomes for families affected by childhood epilepsy.
Science Daily
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.
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.