Epilepsy News

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 ...

Seizure or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A seizure is a sudden electrical disturbance in the brain that may occur due to triggers like fever or injury and can be a one-time event. Epilepsy is a chronic condition involving recurrent, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Activation of lateral septum dorsal GABAergic neurons alleviates epilepsy in mice - Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) represents a common neurological disorder characterized by seizures arising from imbalances between neuronal excitation and inhibition (E-I). Correction of such imbalances has been shown to influence epileptogenesis. The hippocampal CA3 region possesses a high density of kainate receptors (KARs), implicated in the induction of epileptic seizures, and contains a high...

Depression and anxiety in adults with epilepsy. Systematic literature review and meta-analysis - CONCLUSION: Depressive and anxiety symptoms are frequent in PWE, supporting systematic screening and integrated mental health care within epilepsy management.

Nailfold videocapillaroscopy reveals early microvascular changes in pediatric epilepsy - CONCLUSION: Chronic ASMs exposure, particularly valproic acid, may lead to subtle but measurable alterations in microcirculation. NVC may serve as a practical, non-invasive method for the early detection of endothelial dysfunction in pediatric epilepsy and could aid long-term vascular monitoring in this population.

High Theta (4-10 Hz) power as a biomarker of inhibition during epileptogenesis in an animal model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy - Theta oscillations (4-10 Hz) are a prominent electrophysiological feature of the hippocampus and are highly dependent on the activity of interneurons and GABAergic signaling. In mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), theta oscillations are disrupted in the hippocampus and extra-hippocampal structures. We studied here the time-sensitive changes of hippocampal theta oscillations during epileptogen...

Thalamic glutamatergic neurons regulate seizure onset and generalization in temporal lobe epilepsy - Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a common form of epilepsy in adults. The anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT) is a potential therapeutic target due to its role in epileptic networks. Using calcium imaging, we show that glutamatergic neurons in the anterodorsal thalamic nucleus (AD), a subarea of the ANT, are activated during hippocampal seizures. Chemogenetic inhibition of AD glutamatergic ne...

Clinical and laboratory outcomes of ketogenic versus glycine-restricted diet in nonketotic hyperglycinemia: A comparative study - CONCLUSION: Neither diet altered biochemical parameters or motor outcomes. However, KD provided better seizure control compared to GRD, supporting its role as a useful adjunctive therapy in NKH.

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.