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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 ...

Opinion | If a student had a seizure in the classroom, would your school be prepared? - "A parent whose child has epilepsy shouldn’t have to send an email in August asking whether anyone in the building knows what to do," high schooler Rishik Kondadadi writes.

What to know about epilepsy and providing first aid during a seizure - Epilepsy is a common neurological condition which leads to seizures. It affects millions of people in the United States and tens of millions worldwide. It's important to know what epilepsy is, how to ...

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 ...

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 ...

8 best neurofeedback devices for focus & sleep in 2026 - Over 1 billion minutes of user data backs consumer neurofeedback devices, and they’re no longer just toys for Silicon Valley types obsessing over their next cognitive upgrade. These brain-training ...

Neurofeedback for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback Therapists in Texas - Welcome Katy Residents! Whether you are facing personal struggles, workplace stress, or relationship issues, it is important to acknowledge how difficult it can be to confront psychological challenges ...

Electroclinical phenotypes-genetic characterization of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies in a cohort study - OBJECTIVE: Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are characterized by refractory seizures and frequently recurring epileptic activity with neurodevelopmental delay or regression that usually begin in early life. We aimed to define the relationship between electroclinical features and etiology, as well as the genotype-phenotype characterizations and prognosis with genetically deter...

Patient-independent automated pediatric seizure monitoring based on expert-labeled electrographic ictal data as core reference knowledge - CONCLUSION: A curated set of expert-labeled ictal EEG segments served as the core reference knowledge for the proposed seizure detector in recognizing seizure occurrence in unseen patients. Because the proposed approach analyzes individual channels in parallel, it may be clinically applicable to continuous seizure monitoring, particularly in wearable seizure detection systems with a limited num...

A novel myopathy with autophagic vacuoles associated with biallelic variants in CLN8 - Autophagic vacuoles in muscle fibers are a characteristic finding in several muscle diseases and usually indicate perturbed lysosomal protein degradation. Some of these are associated with defects in proteins directly involved in autophagy and lysosomal degradation. The gene CLN8 encodes an endoplasmic reticulum transmembrane protein, previously associated with childhood-onset neuronal ceroid l...

Seizures Temporally Associated With SSRI Treatment: A Two-Case Report Exploring Agomelatine as a Treatment Alternative - Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are widely used as first-line treatments for major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety disorders, with common adverse effects, including sexual dysfunction, anxiety, insomnia, and appetite changes, although seizures have also been reported, particularly in the presence of risk factors such as older age, family history of epilepsy, neurological c...

Early Psychiatric Manifestations of Lafora Disease: A Case Report - Lafora disease is a rare genetic progressive myoclonic epilepsy characterized by the onset of epileptic seizures and myoclonus during adolescence, followed by a rapid progression toward neurodegeneration. However, an often underrecognized aspect of this condition is the presence of psychiatric manifestations, particularly depressive and psychotic disorders, which may emerge prior to or concurre...

Beneficial effects of turmeric oil and sunflower seed oil in the rapid kindling rat model of epileptogenesis - CONCLUSIONS: Both vehicle and turmeric oil exerted anti-ictogenic effects in the rapid kindling model, without attenuating kindling-induced gliosis. Notably, turmeric oil showed modest short-term persistence of its anti-ictogenic effects after washout, consistent with either a transient residual pharmacological action or a limited modulation of seizure progression within this paradigm, but not ...

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.