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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can Neurofeedback Effectively Treat ADHD? - Neurofeedback training is an alternative therapy that uses real-time EEG data to help patients train their brains to improve focus, impulse control, and executive function. Since the 1970s, patients ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dual role of BDNF in epilepsy: insights from calpain-mediated TrkB-FL cleavage - Despite the efficacy of current antiseizure medications in managing seizures, approximately one-third of patients develop refractory epilepsy, highlighting an urgent need to uncover the molecular mechanisms driving epileptogenesis. This process emerges from a complex interplay of molecular alterations, involving changes in neuronal signaling pathways. Among these, brain-derived neurotrophic fac...

Clinical feature-guided targeted genetic testing in early-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy: a real-world diagnostic approach in a resource-limited setting - OBJECTIVE: In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), access to trio-based whole-exome or whole-genome sequencing is limited, which may delay genetic diagnosis in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE). We used clinical features to guide targeted genetic testing and reviewed the results through multidisciplinary discussion in a Vietnamese pediatric cohort with early-onset DEE and ...

Understanding the perceived impact of a peer-led epilepsy self-management intervention in Uganda: a qualitative study - CONCLUSIONS: Peer-led self-management support may enhance engagement, coping, and self-efficacy among people with epilepsy in resource-limited settings. Addressing stigma and strengthening social and healthcare support may be critical for improving outcomes in low-middle income countries.

High-dose cerium dioxide nanorods induce behavioral and electroencephalographic abnormalities through 5-HT1B receptor signaling disruption with an evaluation of anpirtoline's therapeutic potential - Cerium dioxide nanorods (CeO(2) NRs) have drawn extensive research attention in the past few years for their exceptional generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and intrinsic catalytic properties. The two ends of the biological effect show a dose-dependent difference: protection of cells at low doses and damage to cells at high doses. Although the above processes are well documented in othe...

Early-life prolonged hyperthermic seizures alter disease trajectory in the Scn1a(+/-)(tm1Kea) mouse model of Dravet syndrome - Dravet syndrome (DS) is a catastrophic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy caused most often by de novo loss-of-function mutations in SCN1A, the gene encoding the alpha subunit of the voltage-gated sodium channel (Na(v)1.1). Animal models such as the Scn1a(+/-)^(tm1Kea) mouse display relevant DS phenotypes including sensitivity to hyperthermia-induced seizures and later-life spontaneous ...

Temporal evolution of EEG hallmarks in childhood Lennox-Gastaut syndrome - CONCLUSION: EEG hallmarks of LGS emerged progressively during childhood, with slow spike-and-wave preceding GPFA during sleep. Following early clinical manifestations, a prolonged developmental phase may precede full electroclinical expression of LGS, with implications for early diagnosis and longitudinal EEG surveillance.

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.