Epilepsy News

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 ...

Researchers uncover novel pathway that causes epilepsy - Researchers have uncovered a novel biological pathway that can lead to seizures when disrupted. The findings also provide a new approach to improve the diagnosis of epilepsy, for which a genetic cause ...

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 ...

EU epilepsy care gap leaves 40% with treatable seizures - As the EU turns global brain health commitments into national action, member states remain far apart on epilepsy care ...

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 ...

Neuron Connect Expands Access to Advanced Brain Health Technology Through Strategic Healthcare Partnerships - Scottsdale, AZ, USA, July 15th, 2026, FinanceWireThe Arizona-based company is helping physicians integrate brain mapping, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sleep Duration and Epilepsy Risk: Mendelian Randomization and Functional Validation of CACNA1A rs2228130-Related Inhibitory Synaptic Dysfunction - Objectives To evaluate the causal association between sleep traits and epilepsy risk using Mendelian randomization, and to investigate the mechanism of a prioritized epilepsy-risk variant through gene-level enrichment analysis and functional validation. Methods Large-scale European GWAS datasets were analysed using multiple Mendelian randomization methods, including inverse variance weighted, M...

Seizure forecasting: The long and winding road to clinical translation - Seizure forecasting has progressed from theoretical aspiration to a rapidly advancing research domain, yet clinical translation remains limited. Over the past decades, advances in algorithm development, chronic electroencephalography (EEG), wearable sensors, and the characterization of seizure cycles have demonstrated that seizure risk is not random but fluctuates according to identifiable biol...

Does stereoelectroencephalographic depth electrode insertion alter seizure frequency? A baseline versus endpoint analysis - The implantation effect refers to a transient reduction in seizure frequency following intracranial electrode insertion in patients with epilepsy, independent of therapeutic intervention. This retrospective study examined potential clinical and demographic predictors of the implantation effect in 51 patients who underwent stereoelectroencephalographic investigation between December 2018 and Feb...

Postoperative reduction of anti-seizure medication is associated with cognitive improvement in seizure-free patients after anterior temporal lobectomy - OBJECTIVE: To determine whether postoperative reduction of anti-seizure medication (ASM) burden is associated with cognitive improvement after anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) in seizure-free patients.

Monitoring Antiseizure Medication Change Using Ultra Long-Term Electroencephalogram: A Multicenter Study - OBJECTIVE: Medication dose adjustments are common in treatment-resistant epilepsy, but lack robust evidence, and patient-reported seizure diaries have known limitations. We assessed whether ultra long-term subcutaneous electroencephalogram (sqEEG) improves detection of seizure frequency changes after antiseizure medication adjustments.

Exon-level GABRG2 deletion in familial generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus: A clinical vignette - No abstract

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.