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Epilepsy comes out of nowhere: Heartland neurologist discusses misconceptions about seizures - Dr. Mark Farrenburg said he wants people to know the difference between having a seizure and an epilepsy diagnosis this Seizure Awareness month.

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 ...

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 ...

Seizure-alert dogs give new freedom to epilepsy sufferers - He is a specially trained seizure dog who may one day be able to save the life of his new owner, Colise Johnson. "Having epilepsy and cerebral palsy is kind of like having a nonstop roller coaster ...

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? - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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There is something I want people struggling with ADHD to know - Today, please let me talk a little seriously about my work.I usually work in neurofeedback, which is a field that approaches how the brain functions.In doing so, there is something I have felt for a ...

Tlr4 and Nlrp3 inflammasome signaling shape a delayed secondary wave of hyperexcitability after TBI in larval zebrafish: Implications for post-traumatic epileptogenesis - Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) develops in a substantial subset of traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors through epileptogenic mechanisms that remain undefined and untreatable. Neuroinflammation is a key co-occurring mechanism long suspected to drive the transition of TBI-induced seizures into PTE, but anti-inflammatory interventions have thus far failed clinically, likely because of mistimed o...

Sex differences in post-traumatic epileptogenesis and neurological dysfunction following traumatic brain injury - Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a disabling long-term consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), but the role of biological sex on epileptogenesis and recovery remains unclear. Here, we comprehensively characterized chronic PTE development and neurological outcomes in adult male and female mice after severe TBI by controlled cortical impact. Animals underwent continuous video-EEG monitoring ...

Repetitive blast TBI drives chronic sex-dependent paroxysmal motor behaviors and sleep disruption - CONCLUSION: rbTBI produces chronic PMBs and transient disruptions in chronic sleep architecture in male rbTBI animals. Hippocampal astrogliosis is linked to PMB in rbTBI animals and a broader increase in astrogliosis is observed in rbTBI animals, driven by the female rbTBI group. These findings demonstrate persistent sleep and astrocytic alterations alongside chronic paroxysmal motor behaviors ...

GAD65 Autoimmune-Associated Epilepsy: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: GAD65 autoimmune-associated epilepsy (AAE) is an underrecognized cause of epilepsy with common delays to immunotherapy. We review advances in its pathophysiology, diagnosis and management.

Magnetic resonance imaging-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: surgical technique and treatment outcomes - INTRODUCTION: Magnetic resonance imaging-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (MRIgLITT) has emerged as a minimally invasive alternative to open surgical resection in the management of drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE). This review provides a focused overview of selective laser amygdalohippocampotomy (SLAH), with particular emphasis on its clinical applicability. The arti...

Impairment of ictal consciousness and psychosis in drug-resistant focal epilepsy: A retrospective clinical cohort study - OBJECTIVE: Psychoses of epilepsy (POE) affect up to 13% of patients with focal epilepsy. Whereas interictal risk factors are well documented, ictal correlates of POE remain poorly characterized. We hypothesized that an impairment of ictal consciousness on the Consciousness Seizure Scale (CSS), would be associated with POE. We assessed the association between ictal clinical features and POE comp...

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.