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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Epilepsy and the Electric Spirit - This documentary is not about the science but the experience of epilepsy and the perception of people with the condition and society’s view. Epilepsy is often seen as being invisible until it becomes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Severe maternal and neonatal hyponatraemia following excessive oral fluid intake during labour - No abstract

Pilot testing an epilepsy self-management and resilience smartphone application for adolescents and young adults in Uganda - CONCLUSION: The SMART App demonstrated feasibility and high user acceptability with a particularly strong uptake of its resilience tracking feature. By integrating epilepsy self-management with resilience building support, the app offers a promising approach to addressing symptoms of distress, social isolation, and stigma among people with epilepsy. Findings support targeted refinement of app c...

Assessment of caregiver knowledge and attitudes toward pediatric epilepsy during an epilepsy monitoring unit admission - CONCLUSIONS: Caregiver knowledge and overall attitude scores improved during a brief pediatric EMU admission. Because this was an uncontrolled observational study without a standardized educational intervention, the observed changes cannot be attributed specifically to routine education. Test-retest effects and language-related measurement differences are also possible. These findings support p...

Stroke mimics in the emergency department: Prevalence, etiologies, and clinical predictors in patients with suspected acute stroke - CONCLUSION: Stroke mimics accounted for 21.5% of suspected acute stroke presentations in the ED. Altered consciousness, seizure, vertigo, and fever were independently associated with stroke mimics, whereas limb weakness and speech disturbance favored confirmed stroke.

Pathophysiology of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: a devasting convergence of dysfunction in brain, respiratory systems, and heart - Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy, or SUDEP, is the leading cause of death in persons with epilepsy. Although extensively studied, the events that result in SUDEP remain poorly understood, with no reliable biomarkers to predict SUDEP risk in an individual. This review synthesizes the literature across many domains, discussing clinical and preclinical studies in brain, cardio-respiratory cente...

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...

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.