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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 ...

Bill mandates seizure response training for Iowa school staff - A bill that’s won approval in the Iowa legislature calls on Iowa schools to train all staff in how to recognize and respond to seizures and have at least one person on staff who can administer ...

Seasonal Changes and Seizure Frequency: Understanding the Link for Epilepsy Patients - Seasonal temperature changes can disrupt epilepsy management by affecting sleep, stress, and medication absorption. Expert advises personalised strategies to maintain seizure control year-round.

Brainstorm: Australian inventor may have key to predicting epilepsy seizures - Was anything wrong, or was it just in her head?Paige was, eventually, diagnosed with epilepsy, a short-circuiting of the brain that causes seizures.But her struggle to get a diagnosis highlights a ...

Epilepsy News - Apr. 15, 2025 — Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, finds a new global ... Could an Arthritis Drug Unlock Lasting ...

Specific Risk Factors Tied to Epilepsy in Patients With MCI - The APOE4 allele, early-onset dementia, stroke, and Parkinson’s are among risk factors for late-onset epilepsy in patients with cognitive decline, a new study suggests.

SGLT-2 Inhibitors Lower Incidence of Epilepsy in Type 2 Diabetes - Researchers conducted a target trial emulation to compare the effects of SGLT-2 inhibitor and DPP-4 inhibitor use on epilepsy among patients with type 2 diabetes.

New implant offers hope for epilepsy patients - Pioneering surgery to fit an epilepsy implant has been carried out at Newcastle Hospitals, marking the first procedure of its… | Health | North East | Medical | Science | Innovation | National | Healt ...

DOJ Targets Neurofeedback Billing in $15 Million Behavioral Health Fraud Case - On March 6, 2025, federal prosecutors charged a Minnesota couple — Gabriel Adam Alexander Luthor and Elizabeth Christine Brown — with orchestrating ...

Psilocybin-assisted neurofeedback shows promise in preliminary research - Neurofeedback, on the other hand, is a technique that uses real-time displays of brain activity—usually via electroencephalography (EEG)—to teach people how to control specific patterns of ...

'You couldn't make it up': This Minnesota couple was charged with running a $15M medical fraud scheme out of their suburban home. Here's how bogus medical claims can end up ... - The pair, 39-year-old Gabriel Luthor and 42-year-old Elizabeth Brown, allegedly defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers out of millions through a neurofeedback therapy business. "The whole ...

Couple indicted in alleged $15M overbilling scheme - A Minnesota couple was indicted for an alleged $15 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and other insurers.

How To Monitor Progress With Home Neurofeedback Devices - Do you know your brainwave activities carry substantial data about your mental wellness? Beta waves keep you focused, enabling analytical thinking. Neurofeedback devices are sophisticated technologies ...

Augmented hippocampal up-regulation of immune modulators following a peripheral immune challenge in a hemizygous mouse model of the 15q13.3 microdeletion - The strongest known genetic risk factor for generalized epilepsy is the human hemizygous 15q13.3 microdeletion (MD). This 1.5 Mb MD encompasses six genes, including CHRNA7 encoding the alpha7 subunit that forms the homo-pentameric nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, a known regulator of the immune system. In the CNS, hyper activation of neuroimmune responses contributes to increased seizure susce...

Impact of length of stay on diagnostic yield in the epilepsy monitoring unit: A multi-center retrospective 12-year Veterans Health Administration study - OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy Monitoring Units (EMUs) in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Epilepsy Centers of Excellence (ECoE) are critical for the diagnosis and management of seizure disorders. Whether a shorter length of stay (LOS) in the EMU due to scheduling impacts diagnostic yield is unclear.

Ten-year projection of adult epilepsy burden in Australia - OBJECTIVE: The World Health Organization's Intersectoral Global Action Plan on Epilepsy and Other Neurological Disorders calls for more epilepsy care centers, but a population-level estimate of epilepsy's projected burden to justify this investment from a societal perspective is lacking. We aimed to project the burden of epilepsy using dynamic life table modeling including number of deaths, yea...

Patterns of phosphorylated tau accumulation in a spectrum of acquired and developmental brain lesions associated with refractory epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: Phosphorylated tau (pTau) has been reported in surgical resections in refractory epilepsy. It is unclear whether this is activity-driven physiological pTau or signifies the advent of neurodegenerative cascades, relevant to memory decline. To date, primarily hippocampal sclerosis and focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type II have been studied. We aimed to explore pTau in a range of acqui...

Features of cognitive dysfunction in late-onset temporal lobe epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: A global increase in the aging population has resulted in more patients with late-onset epilepsy. Late-onset temporal lobe epilepsy (LOTLE) is one of the most common types of late-onset epilepsy and is frequently accompanied by memory impairments. Here, we investigated the relationships between memory function and clinical characteristics, including findings from long-term video-elec...

Distinct gray matter and metabolic characteristics in hypothalamic hamartoma network with different semiology - OBJECTIVE: Hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) are developmental malformations associated with focal epilepsy. We investigated the patterns of gray matter morphology and cerebral metabolism in individuals with HHs, with and without focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures (FBTCSs), aiming to clarify the accompanying network abnormalities.

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.