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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 ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

Nationwide Survey of Association Between Fever and Epileptic Seizure in CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder Revealed Therapeutic Implications - OBJECTIVE: CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) is a rare, severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. There is a pressing need to develop effective and sustainable therapeutic strategies. We aimed to investigate the causal association between febrile episodes and epileptic seizures for therapeutic implications in CDD patients.

Assessing the performance of artificial intelligence in detecting electrographic status epilepticus when human experts often disagree - OBJECTIVE: Generating reference standards to train and evaluate the accuracy of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms poses a significant challenge. Particularly when interpreting complex signals like electroencephalography (EEG), where interrater variability is considerable. We aimed to characterize the impact of interrater variability when evaluating the performance of an AI algorithm for d...

Treatment patterns and access among people with epilepsy of childbearing potential in Peru - OBJECTIVE: People with epilepsy of childbearing potential in low-resource settings face unique challenges related to anti-seizure medication (ASM) selection and access. These challenges may be particularly pronounced in regions where neurocysticercosis (NCC), a leading cause of acquired epilepsy worldwide, contributes substantially to the burden of disease. We characterized ASM prescribing patt...

Management of ketogenic diet therapy in patients with ileostomy: A report of 2 cases - This case series explores the feasibility and clinical considerations of implementing the ketogenic diet therapy (KDT) for epilepsy management in patients with ileostomies. Two pediatric patients with medication-resistant epilepsy and ileostomies continued KDT under clinical supervision. The first patient had an ileostomy placed while on KDT. Fluids and electrolytes were increased initially, al...

Noncoding RNAs in epilepsy: from molecular mechanisms to clinical translation - Epilepsy comprises a heterogeneous group of brain disorders in which recurrent seizures arise from dynamic interactions among neuronal hyperexcitability, glial activation, neuroinflammation, vascular dysfunction, and maladaptive circuit remodeling. Despite advances in genetics, neuroimaging, and molecular profiling, clinically useful biomarkers remain limited, and disease-modifying therapies ar...

Sigma-1 Expression in Chronic Mouse Models of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - Sigma-1 is an atypical receptor protein that modulates neuronal excitability and cellular stress responses, making it a promising target for therapeutic epilepsy management. However, its expression profile following epileptogenic insults, during epileptogenesis, and following chronic epilepsy manifestation remains unclear. We investigated brain Sigma-1 expression immunohistochemically and via q...

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.