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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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 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 ...
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: ...
Neurofeedback News
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Brain training with neurofeedback shows enhanced benefits on cognitive functions - Neurofeedback has been used for decades to reinforce healthy brain functions. With previous research reporting a positive correlation between enhanced brain activities during brain training and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Brain training with neurofeedback shows enhanced benefits on cognitive functions - Neurofeedback has been used for decades to reinforce healthy brain functions. With previous research reporting a positive correlation between enhanced brain activities during brain training and ...
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Introducing the D-DAND scale: Development of a comprehensive caregiver-administered tool for Dravet syndrome comorbidities -
OBJECTIVE: The Dravet Disease-Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders (D-DAND) scale is a new caregiver-administered interview designed to assess the wide range of developmental and behavioral comorbidities in Dravet syndrome (DS) beyond seizures. D-DAND's preliminary psychometric properties in a large patient sample are reported.
A smart mattress for detecting and correcting the prone position: A feasibility study toward night-time SUDEP prevention - OBJECTIVE: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the leading cause of death in otherwise healthy patients with epilepsy; about 70% occurs during sleep, and nearly 90% of patients are found prone (face-down). Following a nocturnal seizure, terminal apnea occurs between 2.5 and 10.8 min postictally (median ~ 5 min), defining a narrow but actionable window for intervention. Although body-...
Perils and progress in epilepsy surgery utilization: Twenty-five years later - More than 25 years have passed since the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) established that surgery is superior to continued anti-seizure medication (ASM) for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy, and nearly as long since a joint practice parameter urged that appropriate surgical candidates be referred to a specialized center for evaluation-guidance that subsequent consensus has since br...
Early sodium channel blocker initiation is associated with better outcomes in KCNQ2 disorders - Pathogenic KCNQ2 variants are the most common genetic cause of neonatal-onset epilepsies, with phenotypes ranging from self-limited (familial) neonatal epilepsy (SeL(F)NE) to severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (KCNQ2-DEE). Sodium channel blockers (SCBs) have shown promise for seizure control in these disorders, but their impact on neurodevelopmental outcomes and possible relation...
A global literature review of comorbidities and concomitant supportive medications among individuals with Rett syndrome - Aim: To synthesize evidence on the multisystem clinical burden of Rett syndrome, integrating comorbidity prevalence and concomitant medication use to inform proactive care. Materials & methods: A structured search of PubMed, Embase and Cochrane (January 2000 to July 2024), plus gray literature, identified clinical trials, observational studies, registries, and case series (n >10). Non-English a...
Electrophysiological, neurocognitive, and GFAP biomarker responses to corticosteroid therapy in children with ESES/CSWS - Developmental and/or epileptic encephalopathy with spike-wave activation during sleep (DE SWAS), including electrical status epilepticus during sleep (ESES/CSWS), is associated with seizures, neurocognitive regression, and characteristic electroencephalographic abnormalities. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical, electrophysiological, neurocognitive, and molecular response to corticosteroi...
A smart mattress for detecting and correcting the prone position: A feasibility study toward night-time SUDEP prevention - OBJECTIVE: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the leading cause of death in otherwise healthy patients with epilepsy; about 70% occurs during sleep, and nearly 90% of patients are found prone (face-down). Following a nocturnal seizure, terminal apnea occurs between 2.5 and 10.8 min postictally (median ~ 5 min), defining a narrow but actionable window for intervention. Although body-...
Perils and progress in epilepsy surgery utilization: Twenty-five years later - More than 25 years have passed since the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) established that surgery is superior to continued anti-seizure medication (ASM) for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy, and nearly as long since a joint practice parameter urged that appropriate surgical candidates be referred to a specialized center for evaluation-guidance that subsequent consensus has since br...
Early sodium channel blocker initiation is associated with better outcomes in KCNQ2 disorders - Pathogenic KCNQ2 variants are the most common genetic cause of neonatal-onset epilepsies, with phenotypes ranging from self-limited (familial) neonatal epilepsy (SeL(F)NE) to severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (KCNQ2-DEE). Sodium channel blockers (SCBs) have shown promise for seizure control in these disorders, but their impact on neurodevelopmental outcomes and possible relation...
A global literature review of comorbidities and concomitant supportive medications among individuals with Rett syndrome - Aim: To synthesize evidence on the multisystem clinical burden of Rett syndrome, integrating comorbidity prevalence and concomitant medication use to inform proactive care. Materials & methods: A structured search of PubMed, Embase and Cochrane (January 2000 to July 2024), plus gray literature, identified clinical trials, observational studies, registries, and case series (n >10). Non-English a...
Electrophysiological, neurocognitive, and GFAP biomarker responses to corticosteroid therapy in children with ESES/CSWS - Developmental and/or epileptic encephalopathy with spike-wave activation during sleep (DE SWAS), including electrical status epilepticus during sleep (ESES/CSWS), is associated with seizures, neurocognitive regression, and characteristic electroencephalographic abnormalities. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical, electrophysiological, neurocognitive, and molecular response to corticosteroi...
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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.
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.