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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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

Clinical outcomes and risk factors in pediatric epilepsy associated with focal cortical dysplasia: a retrospective cohort study of 628 imaging-confirmed cases - CONCLUSION: Children with FCD show marked clinical heterogeneity, and their prognosis is closely associated with neurodevelopmental deficits, lesion extent, and electrophysiological characteristics. Early identification of these high-risk factors, together with cluster-based stratified management, may be of substantial importance for improving patient outcomes.

Prevalence, treatment gap and factors associated with epilepsy: findings from the Ningxia neuro-epidemiologic study (NNES) in northwestern China - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Prior estimates of epilepsy prevalence in Ningxia have varied substantially across studies, largely reflecting methodological heterogeneity in survey scope, case definitions, and diagnostic criteria. This population-based study used a standardized protocol to estimate the prevalence, treatment gap, seizure characteristics, and factors associated with epilepsy in Ningxia.

Amygdala-HPA axis interactions in temporal lobe epilepsy with anxiety comorbidity - Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common type of focal epilepsy and is frequently associated with various psychiatric and psychological comorbidities, among which anxiety is one of the most common and clinically significant symptoms. Anxiety not only significantly reduces patients' quality of life and treatment adherence but may also increase susceptibility to seizures, thereby exacerbat...

Cenobamate in Focal-Onset Refractory and Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus: A Multicenter Cohort Study With Matched Analysis - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cenobamate (CNB) is an antiseizure medication (ASM) with demonstrated efficacy in drug-resistant focal epilepsy, but its role in status epilepticus (SE) remains unclear. Emerging evidence suggests that it may achieve early clinically meaningful seizure control at relatively low doses, with an acceptable safety profile, supporting its potential utility as an urgent adj...

Robust Epilepsy Diagnosis in Neonates Via Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning and Balanced Test-Time Training - Timely diagnosis of neonatal epilepsy is critical for mitigating long-term neurodevelopmental deficits. However, while neonates exhibiting extensive seizure burden are readily identified, accurately diagnosing epileptic infants with sparse or no overt seizure onset during monitoring remains a formidable challenge using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals alone. Current automated systems predomin...

Early seizure risk after stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases: a multicenter analysis of LINAC- and gamma knife-treated cohorts - CONCLUSIONS: Early post-SRS seizures are an uncommon complication in patients without a history of epilepsy. Seizure risk appears mainly driven by intracranial disease burden, reflected by total irradiated volume and number of lesions at diagnosis, whereas technical SRS parameters do not seem to affect seizure incidence.

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.