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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 ...

The Campaign for a National Plan for Epilepsy Needs Your Help - A future neurologist appeals for your support for the National Plan for Epilepsy to coordinate research and care to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, and hopefully a cure.

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 ...

Patients engage with epilepsy monitor in real time, improving seizure detection - A team has built an AI-based interface that enables real-time communication between patients and epilepsy monitoring devices. As part of a small clinical study at the University of Pennsylvania in ...

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 ...

Epilepsy Explained: Causes, Seizure Types, and Treatment Options for Better Control - Egyptian fruit bats flew more slowly after eating alcohol-laced food. Now the urine strips that caught boozy wild chimps may be used on wild bats. Teen Heart Health Scores Average 68.3 in Ninth Grade ...

First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model expedites access to specialists after a first seizure. The mean time between the referral and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Differences in Epilepsy Etiology, Type, Syndrome, and Severity Between Maori and Non-Maori-Non-Pasifika Children With Epilepsy in New Zealand - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The World Health Organization's Intersectoral Global Action Plan on Epilepsy and other Neurologic Disorders 2022-2031 aims to minimize epilepsy burden, with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples. Māori, the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand, have a similar prevalence of treated epilepsy to non-Māori yet suffer an increased epilepsy burden. This study aims to describe epil...

Evaluating Bioequivalence of a New, Higher-Concentration Diazepam Nasal Spray for Seizure Clusters Compared with the Current Formulation in Healthy Adults - CONCLUSIONS: A single 20-mg actuation of diazepam nasal spray was bioequivalent to two 10-mg actuations with respect to AUC(0-t) and AUC(0-∞) but not C(max). There were no new safety signals for either formulation. The single-actuation formulation may represent a valid and simpler alternative for treatment of seizure clusters.

Internet Intervention for Functional Seizures: A Randomized Clinical Trial - CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Results of this randomized clinical trial show that in adults with FS, a self-guided internet-based intervention reduced seizure frequency and improved anxiety relative to standard care, offering a scalable option for patients unable to access specialist psychological care.

A Mild Neurodevelopmental Phenotype Associated with a Novel BRAT1 Variant: Expanding Genotype-Phenotype Correlations - Background:BRAT1-related disorders constitute a continuous neurodevelopmental spectrum ranging from rigidity and multifocal seizure syndrome, lethal neonatal form (RMFSL) to milder phenotypes characterized by cerebellar involvement and variable developmental impairment. Genotype-phenotype correlations remain incompletely defined, particularly for missense variants that may retain residual funct...

American Epilepsy Society/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Epilepsy Surgery Clinical Practice Guideline - This practice guideline from the American Epilepsy Society and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons provides evidence-based recommendations for surgical treatment of epilepsy for adults and children. It is an update to previous practice parameters published by the Academy of Neurology in 2003. The multidisciplinary panel addressed resective procedures for mesial temporal epilepsy, neocortical ...

Dual-channel fluorescence imaging revealing epilepsy-mediated ferroptosis processes in the mouse brain - Epileptic seizures are caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Although many underlying disease mechanisms may lead to epilepsy, the cause of the disease remains unknown in about 50% of patients worldwide. Given the complex interactions involving multiple signaling molecules in the course of epilepsy, relying solely on a single molecule for detection may lead to false positive resu...

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.