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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 ...

Using Seizure-Risk Forecasts to ID Best Time for Epilepsy Monitoring - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― Scheduling video-electroencephalography (vEEG) monitoring on the basis of personalized seizure risk forecasts may improve diagnostic accuracy, emerging research suggests. In a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seizure or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A sudden episode of shaking, confusion, or loss of awareness can be frightening - but does it mean epilepsy? Understanding the difference between a seizure and epilepsy is crucial for timely treatment ...

Pediatric Epilepsy Outcomes Worsen With Delayed Presurgical Evaluation - Delayed presurgical evaluation for pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy is linked to lower odds of seizure freedom following epilepsy surgery ...

NEURELIS PRESENTS STUDIES ON SEIZURE CLUSTERS AT THE AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING - SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurelis, Inc., today announced details of its presentations at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting to be held December 6-10 in Los Angeles. The ...

In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that the memory-forming stage of sleep could be key for understanding epileptic seizures. . | Credit: ...

Does Levetiracetam Improve Seizure Outcomes in Pediatric Epilepsy? - Although levetiracetam was associated with improved seizure outcomes compared with placebo in pediatric epilepsy, it did not demonstrate superior efficacy when compared with established active ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - Neurofeedback is a noninvasive form of therapy that trains the brain to improve various neurological issues, including chronic pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD. Using EEG to monitor real-time ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Efficacy and safety of tocilizumab in the chronic phase of febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome: a retrospective cohort study - CONCLUSIONS: Tocilizumab is effective in the treatment of epilepsy in the chronic phase of FIRES. Tocilizumab can reduce the seizure frequency in pediatric patients with FIRES and is relatively safe.

The Expression and Effects of Rev-Erbalpha in Different Cerebral Regions of Mice With Acute and Chronic Epilepsy - CONCLUSIONS: Rev-Erbα dysregulation is tightly linked to epilepsy progression. Activation of Rev-Erbα exerts antiepileptic and neuroprotective effects and improves epilepsy-related neurobehavioral deficits, thereby offering a novel strategy for epilepsy treatment.

Posterior occipitotemporal stereoelectroencephalography implantation in a patient with artificial dural reconstruction: A case report - CONCLUSION: Posterior occipitotemporal trajectories represent a practical alternative for SEEG implantation when conventional approaches are limited by prior cranial reconstruction.

Amino acid- and lipid-related metabolic remodeling in PTZ-kindled mice reveals candidate plasma signatures of chronic epilepsy - CONCLUSION: PTZ-induced kindling was associated with marked plasma metabolic alterations involving amino acid-, tryptophan-, and lipid-related pathways. ILA and DG (20:3n6/0:0/20:3n6) emerged as candidate plasma metabolic features associated with the PTZ-kindled seizure phenotype. Complementary analysis of human temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (TLE-HS) hippocampal transcriptom...

GCaMP fiber photometry reveals mechanistic insights into focused ultrasound neuromodulation in acute seizures - Generalized seizures represent a major clinical challenge in epilepsy, often resistant to pharmacological treatment and associated with significant morbidity. While low-intensity focused ultrasound (FUS) has emerged as a promising noninvasive neuromodulation strategy to suppress epileptiform activity, the underlying calcium mechanism remains poorly understood. This study, utilizing simultaneous...

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for the treatment of epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials (from 1990 to 2025) - CONCLUSIONS: Low-frequency rTMS demonstrates a significant short-term reduction in seizure frequency. However, the clinical durability of this effect remains uncertain due to limited follow-up in existing trials. Definitive conclusions require larger, standardised RCTs with longer-term outcomes.

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.