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Early diagnosis and advanced surgical treatments can help epilepsy patients lead seizure-free lives - Apollo Hospitals expert calls for expanded awareness early referrals and dedicated CSR access fund to help drug resistant epilepsy patients overcome treatment barriers ...

The Campaign for a National Plan for Epilepsy Needs Your Help - A future neurologist appeals for your support for the National Plan for Epilepsy to coordinate research and care to enable earlier diagnosis, better treatment, and hopefully a cure.

Longer Seizure-Free Periods Linked to Lower Relapse Risk After Epilepsy Drug Withdrawal - A meta-analysis of 22 studies finds that shorter seizure-free periods before stopping antiseizure medication are linked to higher seizure recurrence risk.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Freedom Neurofeedback Services Shares Free Tools for Planning Home Neurofeedback Rentals - Printable questions, device comparisons and a household calendar help readers organize the practical details of a ...

What Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

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 ...

STRADA deficiency impairs cortical interneuron development in humans and mice - Polyhydramnios, Megalencephaly, and Symptomatic Epilepsy syndrome (PMSE/STRADA-related disease) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by megalencephaly, early-onset drug-resistant epilepsy, neurocognitive impairment, and high early mortality, often due to status epilepticus. PMSE is caused by a multiexon deletion in the STRADA/LYK5 gene, encoding STRADA protein, which regulates th...

Stiripentol in Dravet syndrome: preventing prolonged seizures, reducing mortality, and improving value in care - Dravet syndrome (DS) is a rare and severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy that begins in infancy. Although nonconvulsive seizures may occur, the syndrome is marked by frequent, prolonged convulsive seizures followed by neurodevelopmental plateau, slowing, or regression. Stiripentol (STP) is an anti-seizure medication (ASM) approved for adjunctive use in DS in countries across Europe,...

Clinical, neurophysiological, and radiological correlates of treatment response in elderly patients with epilepsy - CONCLUSION: Comprehensive clinical assessment, supported by neurophysiological and radiological findings, may help optimize the diagnosis and effective management of epilepsy in elderly patients.

The impact of rising global temperatures on neurological diseases - CONCLUSION: While research is expanding, neurological diseases remain an understudied frontier of the climate crisis. Targeted scientific investigation and robust public health strategies are imperative to mitigate the emerging neurological risks of a warming planet.

Caution with self-reported ADHD symptoms in adults with epilepsy: discrepancy between subjective perception and objective cognitive performance - CONCLUSION: Subjective ADHD symptoms show limited overlap with objectively measured cognitive impairment in people with epilepsy. Attention and executive dysfunction appear to be driven primarily by epilepsy-related factors rather than reported ADHD symptoms, underscoring the need for comprehensive clinical assessment.

After the Spasms: Long-Term Outcomes Following Pulsatile Dexamethasone Therapy for Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome: A Retrospective Observational Study - CONCLUSIONS: Pulsatile dexamethasone for IESS treatment shows long-term outcomes comparable with other corticosteroids; patients achieving seizure freedom in the examined population received 4-7 pulses. Majority of seizure relapses occur within the first year after therapy, highlighting the importance of close follow-up, and early relapse in structural IESS may warrant prompt referral for epile...

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.