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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 ...

[What is 'Epilepsy,' a brain disorder that affects 1 in 100 people? A gentle guide to symptoms, types, and treatment goals] - Are you feeling vague anxiety or have questions about epilepsy, such as 'What should I do if I suddenly lose consciousness?' or 'Are convulsions the same thing as epilepsy?'Epilepsy is a very common ...

Seizure or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A sudden episode of shaking, confusion, or loss of awareness can be frightening - but does it mean epilepsy? Understanding the difference between a seizure and epilepsy is crucial for timely treatment ...

Using Seizure-Risk Forecasts to ID Best Time for Epilepsy Monitoring - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― Scheduling video-electroencephalography (vEEG) monitoring on the basis of personalized seizure risk forecasts may improve diagnostic accuracy, emerging research suggests. In a ...

Excellent Brain Partners with Scholas Occurrentes to Bring ADHD Neurofeedback Training to Schools and Universities Worldwide - Founded in 2015 and based in Israel, Excellent Brain Ltd. develops neurofeedback-based brain-training technology designed to support attention and focus. Its Trainer Kit, is used by clinics, schools, ...

Can Neurofeedback Effectively Treat ADHD? - Neurofeedback training is an alternative therapy that uses real-time EEG data to help patients train their brains to improve focus, impulse control, and executive function. Since the 1970s, patients ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - Neurofeedback is a noninvasive form of therapy that trains the brain to improve various neurological issues, including chronic pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD. Using EEG to monitor real-time ...

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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 ...

Diagnosing Lennox-Gastaut syndrome in adulthood: A scoping review of diagnostic challenges and age-related electroclinical evolution - OBJECTIVE: Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy typically diagnosed in childhood. The 2022 International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) criteria provide a diagnostic framework built on pediatric data, but their applicability in adulthood is challenged by disease evolution, treatment effects, and missing pediatric records. This scoping review aimed to ide...

Outcomes of patients with post-stroke epilepsy: A scoping review on quality of life, readmissions, costs, seizure recurrence, and medication adherence - OBJECTIVE: Post-stroke epilepsy (PSE) affects ≈10% of patients with stroke and is associated with adverse health and economic outcomes. We aimed to review published literature on health and economic outcomes for patients with PSE, with a specific focus on quality of life, hospital readmissions, healthcare costs, seizure recurrence, and medication adherence.

How does epilepsy self-management reduce seizure frequency? A causal mediational analysis of a program targeting rural and underserved people with epilepsy and prior negative health events - OBJECTIVE: A recent clinical trial demonstrates that an epilepsy self-management program, self-management for people with epilepsy and a history of negative health events (SMART), improves seizure reduction. Understanding which aspects of SMART mediated this improvement allows refinement of epilepsy self-management programs for effective inclusion into epilepsy care.

Clinical characteristics and semiological pitfalls in patients with focal epilepsy and functional/dissociative seizures: A comparative analysis of correct and incorrect initial diagnoses - OBJECTIVE: Both epilepsy and functional/dissociative seizures (FDS) can present with a wide variety of event manifestations which can appear similar in nature and contribute to misdiagnosis. Whereas many studies have addressed the misdiagnosis of FDS as epilepsy, research into the inverse, where epilepsy is mistaken for a functional disorder, remains limited. Accurate differentiation is vital, ...

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation in drug-resistant epilepsy: A randomized, sham-controlled crossover trial with exploratory EEG and MRI response phenotyping - OBJECTIVE: Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a noninvasive neuromodulation strategy for drug-resistant epilepsy, but clinical response is heterogeneous. We examined whether electroencephalographic (EEG) and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) phenotypes were associated with active-specific clinical benefit from taVNS.

Core outcome set for quality of life of family caregivers of adults with epilepsy: A Delphi consensus study - OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy significantly affects daily functioning and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of those living with the condition. Less is known about HRQOL of family caregivers of adults with epilepsy, yet the functioning of patients and caregivers is interlinked, and caregivers' unmet support needs are high. A consensus-based core outcome set for caregivers' HRQOL can guide more struc...

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.