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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 ...

Where Community Sparks Hope: November Marks National Epilepsy Awareness Month - This November, the Epilepsy Foundation of America invites everyone across the country to uplift the epilepsy community during National Epilepsy Awareness Month (NEAM).

Seizure action plans: More than management tools for epilepsy - Newswise — 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 ...

Circulating miRNAs may flag who develops epilepsy after a first seizure - A small exploratory study found 15 cell-free miRNAs in plasma that differed between patients whose first unprovoked seizure remained isolated and those who had a second seizure within two years.

Can Neurofeedback Effectively Treat ADHD? - Neurofeedback training is an alternative therapy that uses real-time EEG data to help patients train their brains to improve focus, impulse control, and executive function. Since the 1970s, patients ...

There is something I want people struggling with ADHD to know - Today, please let me talk a little seriously about my work.I usually work in neurofeedback, which is a field that approaches how the brain functions.In doing so, there is something I have felt for a ...

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Elite athletes enhance their performance with 'neurofeedback'—and you can get a device for $99 - When you think of the training tools that professional athletes have at their disposal, high-tech sports equipment and state-of-the-art athletic facilities come to mind. But training for peak ...

Freedom Neurofeedback Services Shares Free Tools for Planning Home Neurofeedback Rentals - Printable questions, device comparisons and a household calendar help readers organize the practical details of a ...

Seizure and motor outcomes following subtotal hemispherotomy: A retrospective case series and systematic review - CONCLUSION: SH preserved motor function in all patients. However, fewer than half of our patients remained seizure-free at long-term follow-up, a lower rate than reported in the literature. SH may be considered when preservation of motor function is a priority, provided that families are counseled that seizure outcomes may be inferior to those of complete hemispherotomy.

Temporal trends in GBD idiopathic epilepsy burden across 43 European countries, 1990-2023 - CONCLUSIONS: Age-standardized DALY, YLL, and YLD rates for GBD idiopathic epilepsy declined on average across 43 European countries from 1990 to 2023. This overall improvement masked major national differences, particularly in burden from premature mortality. Country-specific monitoring remains important because the European average does not describe all national trajectories.

Predicting the risk of seizure recurrence after antiseizure medication withdrawal in children with epilepsy: An individualized and web-based clinical decision support model - CONCLUSIONS: SE, FS, active epilepsy duration, and pre-withdrawal seizure-free duration independently predict recurrence in children with normal pre-withdrawal EEGs. Embedding this model into a web tool enables dynamic, evidence-based risk stratification in pediatric practice.

Full title: From neural excitability to volatile signatures: A mechanistic hypothesis for pre-ictal volatile organic compound signatures in epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: Seizure unpredictability remains a major contributor to morbidity in epilepsy, and biomarkers capable of identifying pre-ictal states are critically needed. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have emerged as potential noninvasive indicators of seizure susceptibility, yet the biological mechanisms linking pre-ictal neural states to peripheral volatile signatures remain poorly understood.

Awareness, attitudes toward epilepsy, and first-aid knowledge of seizures among rural primary care doctors in Eastern China - CONCLUSION: The awareness and attitudes of young rural primary care doctors toward epilepsy in the rural clinics were suboptimal. We recommend targeted training for young rural primary care doctors (covering first aid, novel ASMs, and patient counseling for marriage, dating, and pregnancy), combined with telemedicine integration to establish specialist support networks and optimize rural epilep...

Targeted gene therapy alleviates epilepsy and hyperexcitability in models of SCN2A deficiency - Pathogenic SCN2A loss-of-function (LoF) variants can cause severe, refractory epilepsy with limited treatment options. Existing Scn2a-LoF mouse models exhibit few spontaneous seizures, limiting the dynamic range needed to assess therapeutic efficacy. We therefore generated gene-trap Scn2a-deficient mice on the seizure-prone DBA/2J background. These mice experienced hundreds of spontaneous absen...

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.