Epilepsy News

What to know about epilepsy and seizure first aid - November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. Many people may already be aware of the condition from its prevalence in medical dramas, but that portrayal is often exaggerated and does not fully encapsulate ...

National Epilepsy Day: 4 Effective ways to help with seizure control - National Epilepsy Day is marked on November 17, which serves as a reminder to raise awareness about epilepsy and support those living with this neurological condition. Epilepsy is a disorder of the ...

What Is Epilepsy Surgery? - Medications can control seizures in most people with epilepsy, but they don’t work for everyone. About 30% of people taking the drugs can’t tolerate the side effects. In some cases, brain surgery may ...

Women and Epilepsy - You could say that epilepsy doesn't discriminate. It strikes men and women at about the same rate. Men are slightly more likely to develop it than women. But that doesn't mean that it always affects ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his hand, the kind you could use to tote a dirty bomb. Once inside my living room, he cracked open the case and removed a laptop, a ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Knowledge graph representation of the mappings between seizure semiology and epileptogenic zones - Precise epileptogenic zone (EZ) localization remains challenging for epilepsy surgery planning. While seizure semiology provides valuable localization information, subjective interpretation and inter-observer variability limit clinical utility. We developed a computational framework utilizing knowledge graph architectures to analyze ictal semiology-EZ relationships systematically. We constructe...

Elevated FKBP5 expression associates with epilepsy-related molecular changes and promotes neuronal hyperexcitability - CONCLUSION: These findings suggested that FKBP5 played a significant role in regulating neuronal excitability and extracellular glutamate homeostasis. However, due to discrete sampling and the lack of continuous seizure monitoring, the present in vivo data do not establish a definitive causal contribution of FKBP5 to epileptogenesis, warranting future studies integrating longitudinal EEG and ce...

Targeted gene panel testing in pediatric epilepsy: Diagnostic outcomes and expanding genetic insights - CONCLUSION: Epilepsy gene panel testing is a valuable diagnostic tool in pediatric clinical practice. The identification of pathogenic variants across a wide range of genes - including a high proportion of novel mutations - supports the integration of genetic testing into the routine evaluation of pediatric epilepsy for improved etiological clarification and long-term management.

Nationwide registry-linked retrospective cohort study of Ganglioglioma in children and adults: Long-term follow-up of anti-seizure medication and mortality - CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that long-term ASM discontinuation after ganglioglioma surgery is negatively associated with increasing age. ASM discontinuation is the same for those undergoing surgery in an epilepsy surgery program as for those who do not. Future studies are needed to explore why older patients are less likely to discontinue ASM treatment after ganglioglioma surgery.

Drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy: Seizure outcome in children versus adults - CONCLUSION: Children benefit more from TLE surgery than adults, due to earlier intervention and shorter duration of seizures. The principle of "time is brain" holds true in epilepsy; prolonged duration of uncontrolled seizures fosters network expansion, highlighting the need for "early surgical referral" and "catching them young."

Eye patches and seizure frequency in young people with Sunflower syndrome - The goal of this study was to assess the impact of wearing an eye patch on seizure frequency in patients with Sunflower syndrome, a reflex photosensitive epilepsy. Caregivers were instructed to record the number of handwaving episodes (HWEs) that occurred per hour under each of the following conditions: (1) no eye patch, (2) wearing an eye patch on the eye ipsilateral to the hand involved in ha...

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.