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How Neurofeedback Can Help Troubled Couples Get Back on the Same Wavelength - Dr. David Helfand (left) with a patient. The cap contains 19 electrodes that measure the brain’s electrical activity. Credit: Courtesy When a 10-year romantic relationship ended last spring for ...

What is neurofeedback? Video game-like therapy being used to treat anxiety, ADHD and more - It’s like a gym for your brain. As issues like anxiety, depression and restless sleep have spiked during the pandemic, some people are turning to neurofeedback, a kind of gym for the brain. It’s a ...

Mental health clinic expands to Henderson with neurofeedback treatment - A local mental health provider celebrated its expansion to Henderson Tuesday.

Understanding The Role Of Neurofeedback Technology In Addressing ADHD - Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent challenge in today's educational and professional landscapes. Most of us are familiar with ADHD, either ...

How Can Neurofeedback Therapy Help Language and Processing Development? - From birth on, parents can count on their children to be individuals who grow and develop at their own pace. But from a developmental perspective, there are timeframes when kids typically achieve ...

Heterogeneity of monogenic epilepsy in loci, phenotypes, and treatment approaches - No abstract

Semiological value of rhythmic ictal non-clonic hand (RINCH) motions in epileptic seizures - CONCLUSION: RINCH motions represent an uncommon but distinctive manifestation of epileptic seizures, often accompanied by impaired awareness, automatisms and aphasia. These movements typically occur in the hand contralateral to the seizure onset zone. The most frequent seizure onset localisation is the left temporal lobe (dominant) in right-handed patients.

The TGFB1-Wnt/β-catenin axis programs a neuroprotective IGF1+ microglial state during epileptogenesis - Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) remains a major clinical challenge, with over one-third of patients resistant to existing medications. Microglia, the brain's resident immune cells, are highly plastic, yet their potential to adopt a protective state in epilepsy is unclear. Using time-resolved single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) in a kainic acid (KA)-induced seizure model, we identified an ear...

Functional connectivity in self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes increases with epilepsy duration and interictal spike exposure - OBJECTIVE: To determine whether persistent exposure to interictal spikes is associated with progressive changes in functional connectivity in children with self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (SeLECTS).

Serum NfL, GFAP, and p-tau217 in adults with drug-resistant epilepsy and intellectual disabilities: Signs of ongoing neural injury - OBJECTIVE: Adults with epilepsy and intellectual disabilities (IDs) may be at increased risk of dementia, but clinical evaluation is complex and use of conventional biomarkers is often considered too invasive. We explored abnormality of serum neurofilament light chain (NfL), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and phosphorylated tau-217 (p-tau217) in these adults, and their associations wit...

DTaP-induced infantile epileptic spasms syndrome high-risk window: Insights from school-age children - To determine the specific high-risk characteristics and temporal window associated with Diphtheria, Tetanus, and acellular Pertussis (DTaP) vaccine-precipitated infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS), providing evidence for optimizing vaccination safety strategies, we conducted a multicenter retrospective cohort study of 564 patients with long-term follow-up (6.5-10.5 y). Patients were stra...

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.