Epilepsy News

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The brain has its own thermostat. A study shows epilepsy may interfere with it - Doctors have long known that changes in body temperature can affect seizure activity. Fever can trigger seizures in some young children, while in rare forms of epilepsy, bathing in hot water can bring ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Benefits of neurofeedback for those with ADHD mainly due to unexpected factors - The most common form of neurofeedback for ADHD has been training down the theta-waves and training up beta-waves. Our study is the first large, well-blinded study of theta-beta neurofeedback designed ...

Vagus nerve stimulation in pediatric patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: a systematic review - CONCLUSION: VNS yields results that suggest potential utility in the management of LGS. While the ideal scenario would require randomized clinical trials with representative and exclusive samples for the syndrome, as well as standardized stimulation protocols, it is understood that methodological limitations exist when dealing with a rare syndrome. Therefore, the importance of this systematic r...

Psychometric properties of Eysenck personality questionnaire-revised short scale (EPQ-R/S) in three large Czech cohorts: people with epilepsy, people with neurological and other disorders and non-c... - CONCLUSIONS: The Czech EPQ-R/S E and N scales showed adequate psychometric properties and appear suitable for research and clinical use in neurological and epilepsy populations.

Treatment gap in epilepsy is predicted more by patient perceptions than disease burden: Population-based study from rural India - OBJECTIVE: To identify predictors of primary and secondary epilepsy treatment gap (TGap) in a rural Indian community.

Instrumental activities of daily living in older adults with epilepsy: A cross-sectional and longitudinal multicenter study - OBJECTIVE: Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) represent a critical but understudied measure of day-to-day function in people with epilepsy (PWE). In the multicenter Brain Aging and Cognition in Epilepsy (BrACE) study of PWE ≥55 years of age, we examined the proportion, clinical correlates, epilepsy-related predictors, and longitudinal trajectory of IADL impairment.

Excess mortality and causes of death of people with epilepsy in rural China: A nationwide cohort study - OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy is associated with increased risk of excess mortality compared to the general population. Identifying causes of death is critical for guiding prevention strategies. Earlier studies in resource-limited settings suggested that accidental deaths were the main causes, but whether the mortality pattern has changed over time remains unclear. This study aimed to update the knowledg...

Functional (dissociative) seizures in PCDH19-clustering epilepsy: Clinical characteristics and diagnostic challenges - OBJECTIVE: Functional (dissociative) seizures (FDS) are increasingly recognized among individuals with epilepsy, intellectual disability (ID), and psychiatric disorders, but their occurrence in PCDH19-clustering epilepsy (CE) has not been systematically described. We aimed to characterize the clinical features, diagnostic pathways, and management of FDS in individuals with genetically confirmed...

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.