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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 ...

Study: Epilepsy patients benefit from structured 'seizure action plans' - A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status. These ...

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 ...

Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy, so it is a relatively common diagnosis. In fact, it is the fourth ...

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 ...

EMDR and Neurofeedback Helped Me Become a Better Founder - After that session, my confidence hit a low; I wondered if my company would be better off without me. My team didn’t realize that besides managing the major growth of the company, over the last eight ...

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 ...

Brain training with neurofeedback shows enhanced benefits on cognitive functions - Neurofeedback has been used for decades to reinforce healthy brain functions. With previous research reporting a positive correlation between enhanced brain activities during brain training and ...

Concomitant Antiseizure Medications' Influence on Valproic Acid and Levetiracetam Pharmacokinetics in Pediatric Patients - CONCLUSION: Concomitant enzyme-inducing ASM significantly reduced dose-normalized trough concentrations of VPA and LEV, while neutral co-medications had no effect, highlighting the importance of TDM in pediatric combination therapy.

Post-Stroke Epileptogenesis as a Dynamic Network Process: State-Dependent Biomarkers, Longitudinal Monitoring, and the Concept of an Irritable Brain State - Post-stroke epilepsy (PSE) is one of the most common long-term neurological complications of stroke and represents a major contributor to disability, reduced quality of life, and increased healthcare burden. Although numerous risk factors and biomarkers have been proposed, many current risk models still emphasize lesion-related predictors and do not fully account for the temporal evolution of p...

Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Strategies in Epilepsy: From Molecular Mechanisms to Threshold Management - Epilepsy is a multifactorial disorder, yet routine management still focuses on neuronal excitation and insufficient inhibition, with antiseizure medications (ASMs) as the primary therapeutic strategy. This approach fails in roughly one-third of patients who develop drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). Converging evidence links DRE with neuroinflammation, oxidative stress (OS), and mitochondrial dysfu...

Antiepileptic Drug Adherence in Patients with Epilepsy in Saudi Arabia: A Multicentre Cross-Sectional Study - Background: Medication adherence is essential for optimal seizure control in epilepsy. However, non-adherence to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) remains common and contributes to poor clinical outcomes. Evidence on adherence patterns and determinants in Saudi Arabia is limited. This study aimed to evaluate AED adherence and identify factors associated with adherence among patients with epilepsy in S...

4-Phenylbutyrate Rescue in GABRA1 Variants Associated with Developmental Epileptic Encephalopathies: From Cell and Mouse Models to Humans - Disease variants in GABR genes encoding γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptor (GABA(A)R) subunits are major causes of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs). There is no effective treatment for these DEEs, although the GABA(A)R is a major target for antiseizure drugs. We previously identified the therapeutic effect of 4-phenylbutyrate (PBA) in Gabrg2^(+/Q390X) knockin DEE mice and in...

Unraveling the neuroprotective and anti-seizure potential of Calendula officinalis L. extracts in PTZ-induced experimental epilepsy in rats - To examine the potential neuroprotective and anti-seizure effects of Calendula officinalis L. extracts (COE) in PTZ-induced seizures in rats as well as its effects on hippocampal electrophysiological alterations and signaling pathways implicated in epileptogenesis. A recording electrode was stereotaxically inserted in the CA1 hippocampus area of 36 male rats. Rats were randomly allocated into 3...

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.