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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 ...

People with focal epilepsy often have seizures while driving before a diagnosis - Prior to being diagnosed with epilepsy, 5% of people with a type of epilepsy called focal epilepsy had a seizure while driving, according to a new study published in the June 7, 2023, online issue of ...

High Retention, Seizure-Freedom Rates for Perampanel in Epilepsy - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ―The retention rate for the antiseizure drug perampanel (Eisai Co, Ltd) is more than 70% for adult patients with epilepsy, new research shows. In early results from the PERPRISE ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Is Neurofeedback? - Whenever I mention that neurofeedback helped me regain my life after my multiple brain injuries — or that I’m now a neurofeedback provider — the first reaction is to ask me, what is neurofeedback? I’m ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...

Relative entropy as a biomarker for vagus nerve stimulation response in epilepsy: Insights from intracerebral electroencephalography - OBJECTIVE: This study aims to analyze differences in pre-implantation invasive electroencephalographic (IEEG) data between vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) responders (>50% seizure reduction) and VNS nonresponders (<50% seizure reduction).

Semiology of functional/dissociative seizures in idiopathic generalized epilepsy: An inpatient video-electroencephalographic study - OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to estimate the prevalence and characterize the semiology of co-occurring functional/dissociative seizures (FDSs) and identify clinical features potentially associated with the development of video-electroencephalography (video-EEG)-diagnosed FDSs in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE).

A CLN8 biallelic missense variant causes epilepsy with severe treatment-resistant psychosis - Epilepsy and psychosis are dysfunctions of the nervous system that may occasionally co-occur. The current study was designed to investigate the causes of psychosis with or without epilepsy in Pakistani families. We identified two consanguineous families in which all affected members had treatment-resistant psychosis while three patients also had epilepsy. Every participant was examined by psych...

Perineuronal net abnormalities in epileptic human tissue - OBJECTIVE: The extracellular matrix (ECM) performs several functions during development and in mature nervous tissue plasticity; ECM concentrates in lattice-like envelopes called perineuronal nets (PNNs), which surround the cell bodies and proximal dendrites, mainly of parvalbumin (PV) γ-aminobutyric acidergic interneurons. PNNs are proposed to serve synaptic plasticity regulation, synapse stab...

Cortical stimulation reveals effective disconnection of the epileptogenic network at seizure onset - OBJECTIVE: Seizure onset the transition from interictal to ictal network states-remains poorly understood despite decades of research. To date, most analyses of seizure onset rely on descriptors of passively recorded network variables such as spectral features or functional connectivity. However, direct causal analysis of brain network dynamics across the ictal transition have yet to be systema...

Anterior cingulate cortex neuron subtypes differentially regulate seizures - OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the regulatory roles of distinct neuronal subtypes within the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in acute seizures and to identify cell type-specific mechanisms underlying seizure modulation in this region.

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.