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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 ...

FMCSA reviews 11 epilepsy waiver requests from commercial drivers - Eleven truck drivers with histories of epilepsy or seizure disorders are asking federal regulators for exemptions. The post FMCSA reviews 11 epilepsy waiver requests from commercial drivers appeared ...

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 ...

EPILEPSY AWARENESS: Local neurologist explains condition & seizure first aid - COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Local experts say epilepsy is not a condition to be afraid of. Piedmont Columbus Regional pediatric neurologist Pierre Fequiere treats patients with epilepsy every day and knows ...

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 ...

Bellevue Therapist Beverly Brashen, Ph.D. Offers Specialized Insomnia Treatment and Neurofeedback Therapy for Trauma and Chronic Sleep Disorders Across Greater Seattle - The integrative therapist at beverlybrashen.com combines neurofeedback, CBT-I, somatic therapy, trauma-informed care, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perampanel use in pediatric autoimmune encephalitis-related seizures and epilepsy: a retrospective case series - CONCLUSION: In this small retrospective case series, seizure improvement was observed in some pediatric patients with AE-related seizures or epilepsy after PER administration, without serious adverse events. Because most patients received concomitant ASMs and immunotherapy, these findings should be interpreted as preliminary and hypothesis-generating.

Lateralized excitation-inhibition rebalance correlates with motor recovery following hemispheric surgery - Hemispheric epilepsy surgery effectively achieves seizure control, yet post-operative motor recovery remains challenging. Whether motor compensation is linked to the excitation-inhibition balance in the unaffected hemisphere (UH) remains unclear. Using scalp EEG, we quantified the aperiodic exponent of the power spectrum as a non-invasive biomarker of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio (where...

Complement System-Mediated Immunomodulation in Epilepsy: From Pathogenesis to Therapeutic Opportunities - Epilepsy is a prevalent neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures and aberrant neuronal hyperexcitability. Although several antiseizure medications are clinically available, current treatments are primarily symptomatic and fail to prevent epileptogenesis or disease progression. Moreover, nearly one-third of patients develop resistance to these drugs. The absence of effective dis...

Genetic analysis of self-limiting familial infantile epilepsy caused by PRRT2 variants in Indian patients - CONCLUSION: Our study findings broaden the variant spectrum of PRRT2 in SeLFIE, while oxcarbazepine remains highly effective treatment for seizure control. Early-stage genetic analysis plays a crucial role in minimizing unnecessary diagnostic procedures and in guiding more effective disease management in SeLFIE patients.

Does genetic diagnosis influence long-term seizure and developmental outcomes in childhood developmental and epileptic encephalopathies? A longitudinal audit - OBJECTIVE: To evaluate long-term seizure and developmental outcomes of childhood-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE) of presumed genetic etiology and to determine whether genetic diagnosis influences the electroclinical trajectory.

Virtual Screening and Zebrafish Phenotype-Based Evaluation Argues Against Repurposing 4-Phenylbutyrate for STXBP1-Related Disorders - Syntaxin-binding protein 1 (STXBP1) mutations lead to severe epilepsy, intellectual disability, developmental delay, and movement disorder. Effective treatments for these conditions do not exist. Recent studies in Munc18-1 (STXBP1) C. elegans models demonstrate that 4-phenylbutyrate (4-PBA) or related pharmacological chaperones stabilize Munc18-1 protein levels and rescue locomotion deficits. T...

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.