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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback gets you back in the zone - Researchers have shown -- for the first time -- that they can use online neurofeedback to modify an individual's arousal state to improve performance in a demanding sensory motor task, such as flying ...

Understanding The Role Of Neurofeedback Technology In Addressing ADHD - Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent challenge in today's educational and professional landscapes. Most of us are familiar with ADHD, either ...

CT-based radiomic markers to predict late-onset seizures after traumatic brain injury - Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a major long-term complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI), but early risk prediction remains imprecise. Radiomics enables quantitative analysis of subtle abnormalities on non-contrast head CT (NCCT) that are not readily visible on routine imaging and may improve early risk stratification. This pilot study assessed the performance of radiomic features from a...

Alcohol and seizures - Alcohol-related seizures are a frequent neurological emergency, yet their management is often inconsistent. This article provides a practical, clinically orientated framework for evaluating and treating these seizures across different clinical settings. It reviews the neurobiological mechanisms linking alcohol use, withdrawal and seizure susceptibility; outlines a structured diagnostic work-up ...

Real-world clinical experience with intravenous perampanel in Japanese patients at perceived high risk for early postoperative or acute symptomatic seizures: A single-center retrospective observati... - CONCLUSION: This retrospective observational study suggests feasibility and acceptable tolerability of PER-IV; however, preventive effects cannot be determined in this uncontrolled study without systematic EEG monitoring. PER-IV is a feasible and well-tolerated option in patients at increased risk of early postoperative or acute symptomatic seizures who are temporarily unable to take oral antis...

Altered structural connectivity in epilepsy with myoclonic atonic seizures - CONCLUSIONS: A specific altered cortico-subcortical network including pericentral motor areas and probably reticular formation, was identified in our EMAS sample. This supports the Doose's original hypothesis of a brainstem-cortical network involvement in EMAS. These changes were not explained by differences in FA or ADC but decrease in the NoF. The role of sustained seizure activity, antiseizu...

Adjunctive cenobamate in children and adolescents - real-world data from a retrospective multicenter study - CONCLUSION: Our study provides evidence that cenobamate is an effective and well-tolerated ASM in children and adolescents, including in the younger pediatric population. Our findings support the administration of cenobamate in children with focal, drug-resistant epilepsy as adjunctive therapy alongside the use of more established ASMs.

Pulsed focused ultrasound for seizure suppression: Mechanisms, models, and clinical translation - Focused ultrasound (FUS) has emerged as a versatile, non-invasive therapeutic platform for drug-resistant epilepsy, offering both thermal effects for the permanent ablation of epileptogenic foci and non-thermal mechanical mechanisms for the reversible neuromodulation of neural activity, all without the need for surgical implantation. Pulsed focused ultrasound (pFUS) achieves seizure control thr...

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.