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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Novel neurofeedback technique enhances awareness of mind-wandering - Everyone knows the feeling. You are trying to concentrate on driving or studying, or paying attention in a boring meeting, but suddenly, you realize that you are thinking about something irrelevant to ...

Congenital Long QT Syndrome Type 2: Delayed Diagnosis After a Decade of Seizure-Like Episodes - BACKGROUND: Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is typically diagnosed in youth. Recognition in advanced age is rare and may be delayed when arrhythmic syncope mimics epilepsy.

Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated isolated seizures in children: a retrospective single-center case series - CONCLUSION: Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated isolated seizures is a rare and frequently underrecognized phenotype within the spectrum of MOGAD. For school-age children presenting with epileptic seizures, particularly focal motor seizures, along with elevated ESR and CSF pleocytosis, early testing for MOG antibody is recommended in the absence of clinical or radiological e...

Psychiatric comorbidities in pediatric epilepsy: a single-center retrospective study highlighting the burden of depressive symptoms - INTRODUCTION: Epilepsy in the pediatric population is frequently associated with psychiatric comorbidities. Depression is of particular clinical significance given its elevated incidence and substantial impact on quality of life, treatment adherence, and psychosocial functioning. The prevalence of depression in children with epilepsy ranges from 7% to 14%, considerably higher than the 1-5% repo...

Viral Infection-Induced Epilepsy and the Gut Microbiome Crosstalk - Viral infections of the central nervous system (CNS) pose a significant risk for seizures, and in some cases, long-term epileptogenesis. Seizure development following viral infection involves diverse CNS mechanisms, with emerging evidence that peripheral factors, including gut microbiome composition and immune-inflammatory responses, also contribute. The gut microbiome is a multifaceted ecosyst...

Epilepsy in paediatric neurofibromatosis type 1: clinical features and associated factors in a single-centere cohort - CONCLUSIONS: In our cohort, epilepsy occurred in 4.74% of patients. Most had favorable seizure outcomes. Epilepsy was associated with cerebrovascular anomalies and neurodevelopmental comorbidities but not with NBOs or intracranial tumours. These findings suggest that children with NF1 and cerebrovascular abnormalities may warrant particular vigilance for seizures, while those with epilepsy shou...

Advances in neurological disease models and optimization of the laboratory animal environment for reproducible research - Animal models of neurological diseases have evolved from phenotype-based systems to integrated platforms that link genetics, molecular signaling, synaptic physiology, neural circuits, behavior, and therapeutic responses. Simultaneously, increasingly precise phenotyping has revealed that experimental outcomes are strongly influenced by age, microbiological status, diet, housing, stress, previous...

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.