Epilepsy News

Teacher with Epilepsy from Viral Seizure Video Shares Advice for Others Navigating Chronic Illness at Work (Exclusive) - A viral TikTok video of Yareli Jessica Gijon experiencing seizure symptoms in class sparked conversations about epilepsy awareness ...

Teacher Who Was Filmed Having a Seizure During Class Shares How She Navigates Epilepsy as an Educator (Exclusive) - Yareli Jessica Gijon experienced her first seizure at age 12 and was later diagnosed with epilepsy after years of uncertainty She has learned to manage her condition while teaching by recognizing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Sleep could encode epileptic seizures in the brain by repurposing the processes used to solidify memories, potentially making seizures harder to treat or prevent, new research suggests. But the new ...

Employing zebrafish to understand genetic drivers of epilepsy-related comorbid behaviors - Children with epilepsy frequently experience a range of significant comorbidities beyond seizures, such as motor dysfunction, cognitive impairment, and neurodevelopmental delays. In some cases, these comorbidities contribute more significantly to overall disease burden than the seizures themselves. To improve quality-of-life (QOL) for these children, treatment options should be selected that co...

Feasibility and signal quality of the Minder® implantable continuous EEG monitoring® system compared to 10-20 scalp electrodes over extended monitoring periods - OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the signal quality of the Minder implantable continuous EEG monitoring (iCEM) system compared to traditional scalp EEG in the context of long-term, continuous monitoring in individuals with epilepsy.

Corticocortical evoked potential amplitude is altered by cortical stimulation in epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: Neurostimulation is an established therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy, but optimizing stimulation parameters remains a major challenge. Corticocortical evoked potential (CCEP) amplitude may serve as an immediate biomarker of neurostimulation effects, enabling rapid parameter optimization. This study was undertaken to determine whether changes in CCEP amplitude reflect immediate neur...

Unsupervised clustering of electroclinical features in temporal lobe epilepsy: A data-driven approach - OBJECTIVE: To identify clinically meaningful patterns in ictal electroclinical features of focal epilepsy using a data-driven, unsupervised learning approach, and to assess whether such patterns can localize and lateralize the epileptogenic zone (EZ) more accurately than conventional electroclinical interpretation.

Unraveling 4-Phenylbutyrate's Therapeutic Role in SLC6A1 Disorders: Pharmacochaperoning Over HDAC Inhibition - OBJECTIVE: Variants in SLC6A1, encoding the GABA transporter 1 (GAT-1), cause epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder, and developmental delay via loss of GABA uptake, impaired trafficking, and ER retention. We previously found that 4-Phenylbutyrate (PBA), an FDA-approved drug, restores GABA uptake and reduces seizures in SLC6A1-related disorders, prompting a phase I clinical trial (NCT04937062) pri...

Resective temporal lobe surgery in refractory temporal lobe epilepsy: prognostic factors of postoperative seizure outcome - CONCLUSIONS: rTLS is an effective treatment method in patients with refractory TLE. However, patients with a lack of MRI lesions and placement of depth electrodes prior to rTLS are at higher risk for an unfavorable postsurgical seizure outcome.

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.