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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 ...

Study: Epilepsy patients benefit from structured 'seizure action plans' - A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status. These ...

Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy, so it is a relatively common diagnosis. In fact, it is the fourth ...

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 ...

New tech gives hope for a million people with epilepsy - Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. About three million people in the United States have epilepsy, including about a million who can't rely on medication to control ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cardiac Autonomic Modulation in Seizure Disorders With and Without Interictal Epileptiform Discharges: A Retrospective Heart Rate Variability Analysis Using Archived Digital EEG Recordings - Background Cardiac autonomic dysfunction is increasingly recognized in epilepsy and has been implicated in cardiovascular complications and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Heart rate variability (HRV) provides a non-invasive measure of cardiac autonomic modulation; however, the influence of interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) on resting HRV remains uncertain. This study compa...

Ertapenem-Associated Neurotoxicity in a Patient With Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypothyroidism: A Case Report - Carbapenems are broad-spectrum antibiotics used to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms and are associated with neurotoxicity, especially in high-risk groups. Although ertapenem generally has a lower risk of seizures, factors such as advanced age, pre-existing neurological conditions, renal impairment, and hypoalbuminemia can raise the likelihood of adverse effects. We repor...

Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome Underlying Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy in an Adolescent: A Case Report - Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome (DDMS) is a rare clinicoradiological syndrome involving unilateral cerebral hemiatrophy with compensatory calvarial changes. It typically presents with seizures, contralateral hemiparesis or hemiplegia, and developmental delay. The clinical manifestations may overlap with those of hemiplegic cerebral palsy, potentially delaying recognition of the underlying structu...

Age-stratified interictal epileptiform discharges in SCN1A-related epilepsy: Association with early sodium channel-blocking antiseizure medication exposure - CONCLUSION: Prolonged early exposure to SCBs was associated with the presence of IEDs in the 6-13-year age band in individuals with SCN1A-related epilepsy. These exploratory findings should be considered hypothesis-generating and require confirmation in prospective multicenter cohorts.

Design and optimization of nafimidone-inspired hybrid scaffolds targeting NaV1.2 for antiepileptic therapy with reduced cardiac liability - Epilepsy remains a major neurological disorder in need of safer and more effective antiepileptic agents. In this study, nineteen nafimidone-guided derivatives were designed, synthesized, and biologically evaluated to identify new anticonvulsant leads with improved efficacy, brain accessibility, and safety. Initial in vivo screening in the MES model identified compounds 11b and 12a among the mos...

Pediatric refractory status epilepticus: Predictors of in-hospital outcomes from a Chinese tertiary center - Refractory status epilepticus (RSE) is a life-threatening neurological emergency in children. However, real-world evidence on pediatric RSE remains limited. This study characterized treatment patterns, in-hospital outcomes, and predictors of clinical outcomes within a resource-constrained regional referral network. We performed a single-center retrospective cohort study of pediatric patients ad...

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.