Epilepsy News

After Epilepsy Surgery, When to Stop ASMs Matters - A multicenter cohort study explores how the timing of ASM withdrawal after epilepsy surgery may influence seizure relapse and long-term outcomes.

Understanding epilepsy: Seven ways to respond to an epileptic seizure - At the forefront of epilepsy research and treatment is the University of Alabama at Birmingham Epilepsy Center, a collaborative initiative between the UAB Department of Neurology and UAB Hospital, ...

Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure - 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-most common neurologic condition in the world. November is National ...

Can Epilepsy Be Cured? A Neurologist Explains What Seizure-Free Really Means - What does it truly mean to be seizure-free A Neurologist explains the difference between remission and a cure and the latest treatment options for managing the condition ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

Doctor explains: How childhood epilepsy often goes undetected and what parents must know - Epilepsy remains one of the most common neurological disorders globally. Firstpost brings out experts’ views on signs, developmental impact, rural-urban treatment gaps and how AI and precision ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can Monitoring Brain Waves Boost Mental Health? - Neurofeedback has promised a mental health revolution for decades. But is it effective? Credit...Tony Luong for The New York Times Supported by By David Dodge Twice a week, Stephanie, a 37-year-old ...

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 ...

Performance of Automated Detection Software in Absence Seizures - CONCLUSION: Spikeburst module with a threshold duration of 2 seconds represents the most feasible compromise between sensitivity and clinical usability.

Post stroke seizures and Vascular epilepsy - CONCLUSION: This study emphasizes the need for clear guidelines for managing post-stroke epilepsy, especially for high-risk elderly patients. Current recommendations provide useful insights, but further research is needed to better define risk factors and optimize management strategies.

Clinically Silent Seizures in Neonates with Tuberous Sclerosis: An International Case Series - CONCLUSION: Our study suggests that early video-EEG for electrographic-only seizures may be valuable in neonates with TSC who otherwise would go untreated.

AAV-mediated gene therapy in a SLC13A5 citrate transporter disorder model rescues epileptic and metabolic phenotypes - SLC13A5 citrate transporter disorder is a rare epileptic encephalopathy caused by loss of function pathogenic variants in the SLC13A5 gene. Loss of sodium/citrate cotransporter (NaCT) function causes a severe early life epilepsy resulting in life-long developmental disabilities and increased extracellular citrate. Current antiseizure medications may reduce seizure frequency, yet more targeted t...

Ameliorating Seizures in Dravet Syndrome: A Review of Newly Approved and Investigational Drugs, RNA and Gene-Based Therapies - Dravet syndrome (DS) is a severe infantile-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterised by frequent drug-resistant seizures, cognitive and motor impairment, and an elevated risk of premature mortality, particularly from sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Over 95% of cases are caused by loss-of-function pathogenic variants in SCN1A, the gene encoding the voltage-gated...

Spurious Spike Elimination using Sparse Signal Processing Improves Seizure Onset Zone Delineation in Brief Intraoperative iEEG Recordings - Interictal epileptiform spikes and high frequency oscillations (HFOs) have proven to be promising neuro biomarkers for seizure onset zone (SOZ) identification in drug-resistant epilepsy. This study presents a sparse signal processing based denoising model for epileptiform spikes. The model was trained on expert-labeled events to remove artifacts and spurious detections from the initial candidat...

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.