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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Film Recall Reveals Intact Event Memory but Impaired Sequence Memory in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Patients with epilepsy (PWE), especially temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), experience impaired memory for personally experienced events. However, current assessments of episodic memory are limited in their ecological validity with a potential to miss detection of subtle cognitive decline. We conducted an exploratory study to determine whether a naturalistic film-viewing t...

Exploring associations between ambient temperatures and seizure occurrence - CONCLUSION: Ambient temperature patterns at multiple timescales and seizure occurrence may be linked. It is likely that these associations are substantially influenced by both regional context and individual characteristics. While limited by sample size and regional focus, this associational and hypothesis-generating study underscores the relevance of environmental factors to seizure dynamics a...

Safety and Local Tolerability of Diazepam Nasal Spray for Children With Epilepsy Aged 2-5 Years: Final Results of a Phase 1/2a Trial - Diazepam nasal spray is approved to treat seizure clusters in patients aged ≥2 years. A long-term safety study in patients aged 6-65 years found a safety profile similar to diazepam rectal gel. We conducted an open-label, phase 1/2a trial of diazepam nasal spray in children with epilepsy aged 2-5 years with motor seizures or seizures with clear alteration of awareness. After a pharmacokinetic p...

Responsive Neurostimulation Therapy Outcomes in Two Small Bilateral Thalamic and Corticothalamic Subgroups of Patients with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy-A Single-Center Experience - Responsive neurostimulation (RNS) is a neuromodulation option for treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). There is limited data reviewing bilateral thalamic and corticothalamic RNS therapy response. We performed a retrospective analysis of 21 patients undergoing RNS implantation with either bilateral thalamic (n = 17) or corticothalamic (n = 4) leads and ≥6 months of follow-up. Patients wer...

Brivaracetam in Combination with Midazolam and Ketamine Reduces Soman-Induced Seizure and Neurodegeneration in Rats - CONCLUSIONS: Although further research is needed to determine optimal drug combinations, these preclinical findings provided further evidence that simultaneous polytherapy with ASMs improves OPNA-induced seizure outcomes.

Metabolic Outputs of the Gut Microbiome: Implications for Epilepsy - CONCLUSIONS: Some microbial-derived metabolites may serve as promising biomarkers and mechanistic mediators of epilepsy; however, further investigation is needed to define the molecular and cellular pathways through which these metabolites influence seizure susceptibility and epileptogenesis.

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.