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FMCSA reviews 11 epilepsy waiver requests from commercial drivers - Eleven truck drivers with histories of epilepsy or seizure disorders are asking federal regulators for exemptions. The post FMCSA reviews 11 epilepsy waiver requests from commercial drivers appeared ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nashville Brain and Wellness: LENS neurofeedback - What if just a few sessions could help retrain your brain? Nashville Brain and Wellness is showing us the science behind LENS Neurofeedback and why patients are turning to it for better focus, sleep, ...

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 ...

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 ...

EEG Functional Connectivity Methods for Seizure-related Disorders - EEG functional connectivity analysis is increasingly used to study neurological disorders. However, the lack of standardization in connectivity estimation limits its clinical translation. This work addresses the need for more guidance in connectivity pipeline design by evaluating numerous techniques in two seizure-related disorders to identify optimal approaches. Retrospective EEG data were ana...

Reconstruction and validation of a short version of the scale for suspicion of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in a Japanese cohort - CONCLUSION: In our Japanese cohort, the original 15-item scale did not show reproducibility, so a shortened version with a two-factor structure was developed and evaluated. The new SS-PNES-short had high sensitivity but low specificity for identifying FDS. The addition of epilepsy-specific factors may improve the specificity of SS-PNES.

Spike-wave detection in ultra-long-term EEG recordings from patients with absence seizures - CONCLUSIONS: Patient-specific CNN-based detectors demonstrated excellent performance, and cross-patient detectors performed comparably.

Phenotype and genotype of people with epilepsy and GABAA receptor gene variants: Genetic and clinical characterization of six children in China - CONCLUSION: Clinical phenotypic heterogeneity in epilepsy associated with GABA(A) receptor variants is significant and may relate to variant type and location. This study expands the spectrum of known pathogenic variants in a Chineses cohort and provides a reference for clinical diagnosis and genetic counseling. The findings underscore the need for large-scale collaborative studies to further r...

Exploring DHODH inhibition with silibinin as a promising approach to treat drug resistance in epilepsy - Mitochondrial dysfunction and excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key contributors to the pathogenesis of drug resistant epilepsy (DRE). Recent findings suggest DHODH, a mitochondrial enzyme may influence neuronal excitability by affecting intrinsic firing set points. Dysregulated DHODH activity may elevate set points, contributing to persistent hyperexcitability in epilep...

Levetiracetam for Seizure Prophylaxis after Traumatic Brain Injury: A Severity-Stratified Cohort Study of 51,000 Patients - OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and adverse effect profile of prophylactic levetiracetam in preventing epilepsy after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

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.