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Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his hand, the kind you could use to tote a dirty bomb. Once inside my living room, he cracked open the case and removed a laptop, a ...

How Neurofeedback Can Help You - Neurofeedback is a computer-guided, noninvasive brain-function training based on EEG feedback. Neurofeedback is also called “neurotherapy,” “neurobiofeedback,” or “electroencephalography” (EEG) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Study on law of syndrome differentiation and treatment of epilepsy and discovery of effective prescriptions based on ancient medical records - Based on the ancient books, data mining of ancient medical records of epilepsy was carried out. The law of syndrome differentiation and treatment of epilepsy in ancient medical records was summarized, and effective prescriptions and core formulas were excavated, so as to provide reference for clinical treatment of epilepsy. Apriori algorithm module in IBM SPSS Modeler 18.0 was used to analyze t...

Progress in pharmacological effects and mechanisms of alpha-asarone against epilepsy - Epilepsy is a clinical syndrome caused by abnormal synchronous discharges of neurons in the brain resulting from multiple etiological factors. Its pathogenesis is complex, and the number of patients is increasing year by year. Existing antiepileptic drugs have problems of drug resistance and various adverse reactions, making it difficult to completely and effectively control the persistent or r...

Ketogenic Diet in Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus: A Retrospective Cohort Study with Severity-Matched Controls in Critically Ill Adults - CONCLUSIONS: KD is feasible and safe in adult patients with SRSE. Time-dependent models showed a significant therapeutic association, particularly with earlier initiation. These findings support prospective evaluation of KD as a nonpharmacologic therapy in neurocritical care.

Duration of EEG monitoring needed to ensure a low risk of seizure recurrence in hospitalized patients - CONCLUSION: Our findings support current clinical practices of at least 24 h of EEG monitoring following seizure cessation and highlight that patients with a history of status epilepticus may require longer monitoring. These data reinforce the value of individualized, risk-based approaches to EEG monitoring strategies.

Automated video-based differentiation of sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy and parasomnia episodes - Distinguishing epileptic seizures from parasomnias is challenging due to overlapping motor features. This study evaluated a SlowFast deep learning model using video recordings of 167 individuals to classify Sleep-Related Hypermotor Epilepsy, Disorders of Arousal, and REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. The model achieved a mean accuracy of 83.3% across three data splits. This work represents an initia...

Antecedent enhancer activity predicts future susceptibility to seizures in mice - Wide variation of responses to identical stimuli presented to genetically inbred mice suggests the hypothesis that stochastic non-genetic variation, such as in chromatin state or enhancer activity during neurodevelopment, can mediate such phenotypic differences. However, this hypothesis is largely untested since capturing pre-existing molecular states requires non-destructive, longitudinal reco...

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.