Epilepsy News

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 treatment - Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or 'pulse generator') which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - Neurofeedback is a noninvasive form of therapy that trains the brain to improve various neurological issues, including chronic pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD. Using EEG to monitor real-time ...

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 ...

Can Monitoring Brain Waves Boost Mental Health? - Neurofeedback has promised a mental health revolution for decades. But is it effective? Credit...Tony Luong for The New York Times Supported by By David Dodge Twice a week, Stephanie, a 37-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cenobamate Improves Emotional Dysregulation, Impulsivity, and Apathy in Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy: A Longitudinal Neuropsychological Study - CONCLUSION: Adjunctive CNB was correlated with psychopathological improvements alongside domain-specific cognitive changes, independent of seizure outcome and concomitant ASM burden. These findings further expand current knowledge on CNB impact and tolerability profile.

Frequency-aware transformer networks for robust and generalizable EEG-based seizure detection - Automated epileptic seizure detection from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals remains a critical challenge for real-world clinical deployment due to the complex, nonstationary, and multi-scale nature of neural dynamics. Existing deep learning approaches, including convolutional and transformer-based models, often fail to jointly capture spectral-temporal dependencies while maintaining robustnes...

Analysis of clinical phenotypes and pathogenicity of a c.4476+5G>T variant of SCN1A gene in a Chinese pedigree affected with Genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus - CONCLUSION: The c.4476+5G>T variant at an intronic site of the SCN1A gene probably underlay the pathogenesis of GEFS+ in this pedigree.

Real-world clinical utility of exome sequencing in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy: Experience from a tertiary center in Thailand - CONCLUSION: WES achieved a 39% diagnostic yield and substantial clinical utility in pediatric DRE, particularly in early-onset and channelopathy-related disorders. These findings support early molecular diagnosis to facilitate genotype-informed management in appropriately selected children. However, the more favorable developmental and seizure outcomes observed in genetically solved patients sh...

Association of tobacco use with seizures, psychosocial comorbidities, and quality of life among people with epilepsy: A cross-sectional analysis - CONCLUSIONS: Tobacco use was significantly associated with medicinal cannabis which in turn was associated with increased seizure frequency among PWE. Given the risks associated with using multiple substances, more research is needed to better understand the association between epilepsy and multiple product use. These results underscore the need for integrating cessation-related resources into ...

Dissociating decision-making deficits in temporal and frontal lobe epilepsy using Bayesian methods - CONCLUSION: Focal epilepsy impacts decision-making efficiency in a manner contingent upon seizure focus. The observed distinctions between temporal groups tentatively suggest potential avenues for future longitudinal research into tailored neuropsychological interventions. These findings highlight the utility of Bayesian frameworks in providing a nuanced, probabilistic characterization of cogni...

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.