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 ...

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 ...

New tools map seizures in the brain, improve epilepsy treatment - Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that part ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRYM secures €650K to develop wearable neurofeedback platform - Stockholm-based neurotech startup BRYM is developing a wearable neurofeedback platform designed to help users improve focus and cognitive performance through EEG-based brain training.

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 ...

Does electrocorticographic guidance improve seizure outcomes following cavernoma resection? - OBJECTIVE: Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are vascular anomalies frequently associated with drug-resistant epilepsy. Surgical resection is a well-established treatment; however, the optimal strategy to achieve long-term seizure freedom (SF) remains unclear. Intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG) may enhance seizure outcome by guiding resection extent, yet comparative evidence is li...

The Prevalence and Risk of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) in Women with Epilepsy: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - CONCLUSION: The results of this systematic review show that the pooled prevalence of PCOS in women with epilepsy is 19% and the risk of developing PCOS is three-fold higher than in healthy women.

Neuroimmunology of Epilepsy: Mechanisms, Treatments, and Clinical Insights - Immune-mediated epilepsies represent an etiologically unique category defined by immune activation within the central nervous system that initiates a pathophysiological cascade resulting in seizures, encephalopathy, and sometimes epileptogenesis with long-term epilepsy. Once considered rare and largely confined to paraneoplastic or postinfectious syndromes, immune-mediated and inflammatory mech...

DPP-4 inhibitors in drug-resistant epilepsy: a hypothesized mechanism via the gut microbiota-short-chain fatty acids-glucagon-like peptide-1 axis - CONCLUSION: By integrating cross-contextual evidence, we propose that DPP-4is may exert protective effects on DRE through gut microbiota-SCFAs-GLP-1 axis.

Fatigue and Depression in Epilepsy Patients May Not be Solely Related to the Epilepsy Itself - No abstract

Patient Activation Measures Among Individuals With Epilepsy: A Cross-Sectional Study of an Arabic-Speaking Population - CONCLUSION: Most patients demonstrated moderate to high activation levels. Employment status and medication adherence were positively associated with activation, suggesting potential targets for interventions aimed at improving self-management among individuals with epilepsy.

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.