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First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model expedites access to specialists after a first seizure. The mean time between the referral and the ...

What to know about epilepsy and seizure first aid - November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. Many people may already be aware of the condition from its prevalence in medical dramas, but that portrayal is often exaggerated and does not fully encapsulate ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Why Early Detection of Seizures and Epilepsy Is so Important - For parents, a child having a seizure is one of the most frightening experiences imaginable. While many childhood seizures are brief and isolated, others are more serious and persistent. To make the ...

Neurofeedback game helps patients with MS manage fatigue - A compassionate neurofeedback game that can identify fatigue aims to help patients with MS, according to a poster presented at Cedars-Sinai’s eighth annual iteration of its Virtual Medicine Conference ...

Evidence-based retraining of the brain available on the Kenai Peninsula - Neurofeedback therapy for children and adults offers an effective, alternative to traditional treatment For many people struggling with ADHD, poor focus, insomnia or emotional dysregulation, the path ...

Sens.ai Introduces First Functional EEG-Based Brain Age Clock Validated at MRI-Grade Accuracy - Pivotal study co-authored by researchers at the Buck Institute and Sens.ai, shows participants improved their brain age by an average of 5.18 years in 56 days. When we ran the data, BrainYears: turned ...

Neurofeedback gets you back in the zone - Researchers have shown -- for the first time -- that they can use online neurofeedback to modify an individual's arousal state to improve performance in a demanding sensory motor task, such as flying ...

What is neurofeedback? Video game-like therapy being used to treat anxiety, ADHD and more - It’s like a gym for your brain. As issues like anxiety, depression and restless sleep have spiked during the pandemic, some people are turning to neurofeedback, a kind of gym for the brain. It’s a ...

Endoscopic disconnection of hypothalamic hamartoma: an already outdated story? - CONCLUSIONS: Endoscopic disconnection remains a viable and minimally invasive surgical option for the treatment of HH-related epilepsy, particularly for newly diagnosed or residual HHs with intraventricular involvement.

Seizure-presenting IDH-wildtype glioblastoma and the upregulation of a synaptic signature - CONCLUSIONS: In IDH-wildtype GBM, tumors presenting with seizures had smaller volumes than those presenting with other signs. Transcriptionally, seizure presentation in IDH-wildtype GBM correlated with the upregulation of synaptic and ionic pathways, with SLC17A8 holding independent predictive value for seizure presentation.

CACNA2D2 rs56287038:G>T and SCN1A rs2298771:C>T Variants Are Associated with Antiseizure Medication Response in Turkish Epilepsy Patients : A Pilot Study - CONCLUSION: CACNA2D2 rs56287038:G>T and SCN1A rs2298771:C>T may effect ASM response.

Anatomy-corrected metabolic asymmetry predicts seizure freedom after surgery in focal cortical dysplasia - No abstract

Case Report: Post-stroke hemorrhagic infarction in a status epilepticus Beagle dog - This case describes the acute neuropathology of a 4.5-year-old male Beagle that presented with status epilepticus and a simultaneous post-stroke hemorrhagic infarction. The clinical course involved 5 days of refractory cluster and generalized seizures, during which the patient remained in a "grave" borderline threshold on the Modified Glasgow Coma Scale. Initial hematobiochemical analysis revea...

Clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophrenia with epilepsy: A case report - CONCLUSION: We report a case of TRS with comorbid epilepsy in which CLOZ therapy was both effective and safe.

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.