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Seizure first aid, epilepsy awareness bill signed into law - Legislation aimed at helping South Carolina workplaces respond appropriately when someone experiences a seizure has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.

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 ...

Seizure Burden in Resistant Epilepsy May Ease With the Tincture of Time - Nearly 70% of patients with focal treatment-resistant epilepsy (FTRE) experience fewer seizures over time, new results of a multicenter study showed. However, the improvements occurred independent of ...

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that the memory-forming stage of sleep could be key for understanding epileptic seizures. . | Credit: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sturge-Weber syndrome: comparative analysis between clinical manifestations and neuro-radiological findings - CONCLUSIONS: In our cohort, early-onset epilepsy was highly prevalent. Bilateral leptomeningeal angioma and calcifications were associated with a more severe clinical phenotype, characterized by earlier seizure onset, higher rates of drug resistance, and cognitive impairment. Infratentorial involvement was also associated with increased intellectual disability.

Prognosis of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: diagnostic methods and treatment - Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy results from perinatal asphyxia and manifests through severe metabolic acidosis or neonatal depression requiring resuscitation. Since this remains a significant cause of mortality and neurodevelopmental disorders such as cerebral palsy and epilepsy, a multimodal evaluation integrating clinical, biochemical, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging parameters is requi...

Electroclinical recognition of SCN2A, SCN8A, KCNQ2, and KCNQ3 pathogenic variants - Genetic epilepsies presenting in the neonatal period and early infancy require time-critical, mechanism-aware decisions. Amplitude-integrated EEG (aEEG) provides continuous bedside screening in the NICU, but its yield improves when seizures are confirmed and characterized with multichannel conventional EEG (referred to here as rEEG; the term "continuous EEG or cEEG" is reserved for prolonged mo...

Neuroimmune and Neurovascular Remodeling After Perinatal Hypoxia: Mechanistic Pathways Linking Early-Life Injury to Epileptogenesis - A Scoping Review - CONCLUSIONS: Current evidence suggests that perinatal hypoxia is associated with sustained neuroimmune and neurovascular alterations that may contribute to delayed epileptogenesis. Although experimental findings are biologically compelling, longitudinal human validation remains limited. Autonomic manifestations and inflammatory biomarkers should not currently be considered reliable standalone p...

The Potential of Cannabidiol for the Treatment of Psychosis: Endocannabinoid Regulation of Serotonergic Neurotransmission via Serotonin 5-HT1A/2A Receptors - Cannabis, widely used for both medical and non-medical purposes, primarily contains Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ⁹-THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). Δ⁹-THC is the main driver of cannabis abuse and of psychological and physical dependence, whereas CBD has limited abuse potential and is even being investigated as a treatment for cannabis use disorder and other conditions. This review aims to clarify how t...

Formononetin Attenuates Seizure Severity and Cognitive Deficits in PTZ-Kindled Rats with Associated Changes in Oxidative Stress and P2 X 7/IL-1beta/Glutamate Signalling Markers - Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterised not only by recurrent seizures but also by cognitive decline, neuroinflammatory responses, and oxidative stress, implicating the ATP-gated P2 X 7 receptor and downstream inflammasome signalling in epileptogenesis. Utilising the pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced kindling model in rats, this research aimed to evaluate the neuroprotective and...

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.