Epilepsy News

Radiosurgery Eased Seizures in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy, but No Patient Became Seizure-Free - A seven-patient pilot study found that LINAC-based radiosurgery targeting the hippocampal head and anterior body cut median seizure frequency by 75.6% in drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, ...

Deep brain stimulation in patients with epilepsy produces measurable response within minutes, study finds - Mayo Clinic researchers have detected measurable changes in the brain within 18 minutes of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in people with drug-resistant epilepsy, a finding that could eventually help ...

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 ...

Patients engage with epilepsy monitor in real time, improving seizure detection - A team has built an AI-based interface that enables real-time communication between patients and epilepsy monitoring devices. As part of a small clinical study at the University of Pennsylvania in ...

Blood markers flag drug-resistant epilepsy in children, study finds - A cross-sectional study of 67 Jordanian children with epilepsy found that serum resistin and TNF-α levels significantly predicted drug-resistant epilepsy, while adiponectin and leptin were elevated ...

Seizure action plans: More than management tools for epilepsy - Newswise — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elite athletes enhance their performance with 'neurofeedback'—and you can get a device for $99 - When you think of the training tools that professional athletes have at their disposal, high-tech sports equipment and state-of-the-art athletic facilities come to mind. But training for peak ...

Can Monitoring Brain Waves Boost Mental Health? - Neurofeedback has promised a mental health revolution for decades. But is it effective? Credit...Tony Luong for The New York Times Supported by By David Dodge Twice a week, Stephanie, a 37-year-old ...

Comparative efficacy of first-line antiseizure monotherapy in pediatric focal epilepsy: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses - CONCLUSIONS: Current umbrella-level evidence does not establish clear superiority of one first-line ASM over another for seizure control in pediatric focal epilepsy. Importantly, the absence of statistically significant differences should not be interpreted as evidence of therapeutic equivalence, because several estimates remain imprecise and clinically meaningful differences cannot be excluded...

Clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness of epilepsy surgery in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis - OBJECTIVE: To synthesize evidence on clinical outcomes, direct surgical costs, and cost-effectiveness of resective epilepsy surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Accuracy, Safety, and Workflow of Frameless Neuronavigation-Guided Stereoelectroencephalography in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: A Single-Center Cohort Study - CONCLUSION: Frameless neuronavigation-guided SEEG achieved reproducible millimetric accuracy, low morbidity, and efficient workflow in a consecutive real-world cohort. These findings support frameless neuronavigation as a safe and scalable option for invasive presurgical evaluation in DRE.

Neonatal-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy: High genetic yield and long-term outcomes in a multicenter southern European cohort - OBJECTIVE: To determine the genetic diagnostic yield, characterize the clinical and genetic landscape, and evaluate long-term epilepsy, neurodevelopmental, and survival outcomes in a strictly defined cohort of neonatal-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE).

Unilateral Approach for Bilateral Posterior Cingulate Coverage in Stereoelectroencephalography: A Technical Note and Case Series - CONCLUSION: We have shown that the unilateral transhemispheric approach for bilateral PCC SEEG is feasible to sample both sides. Importantly, the transfalcine approach used, and previously considered a relative contraindication, was performed safely and accurately in our series. We demonstrated the utility of sampling both ipsilateral and contralateral PCC to identify the epilepsy network. Thus...

Phenotypic comparison of idiopathic epilepsy in English Springer Spaniels and Cocker Spaniels using a validated owner-completed questionnaire - In response to the recurring identification of medication-resistant idiopathic epilepsy (IE) in English Springer Spaniels (ESS), the objective of this retrospective questionnaire-based observational study was to delineate the phenotypic characteristics of IE in this breed in comparison to a cognate breed, the English Cocker Spaniel (ECS), employing a novel, validated, owner-completed multilingu...

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.