Epilepsy News

'We didn't know our daughter had a rare form of epilepsy until she died' - A mother whose daughter died from a rare epilepsy syndrome is running Bradford 10k in her memory, 10 years after her death. Cheryl Murphy, from Pudsey, will be joined by nine of her friends and family ...

Frenchie’s Seizure Would Have Cost His Life, But His Boxer Brother Does Something Unbelievable - When Yogi collapsed during a medical emergency, no humans were home. What his brother Reggie did next left everyone in awe—and saved a life.

New studies will investigate use of EEG and fMRI in dogs with epilepsy - For the study, investigators will use EEG to monitor brain activity in dogs with epilepsy and compare the frequency and type of seizures detected to those reported by the patients’ caregivers. EEG ...

Neurofeedback therapy: A pathway to recovery from emotional trauma - Survivors of narcissistic abuse are using neurofeedback therapy as a new way to healing and emotional recovery.

EEG Neurofeedback May Ease Corneal Neuropathic Pain - Research shows that a home-based, self-directed EEG neurofeedback intervention may improve corneal neuropathic pain severity and interference in adults.

Neurofeedback is the newest mental health hack among entrepreneurs. Here’s why - Neurofeedback is a non-pharmaceutical approach to improving brain health, mood, and cognitive disorders. By measuring, and assessing, real-time brain activity using an electroencephalogram (EEG ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - The promise of neurofeedback is to shift our brain waves back to health without drugs, exercise or even meditation. Clients suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic ...

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 ...

Cenobamate-associated weight loss (Cenobaweight study) - CONCLUSIONS: A larger than expected number of patients in two centers had significant unintentional weight loss associated with CNB use. In a subset, the effect appeared to be reversible with minor dose reduction, even with severe weight loss. Systematic weight assessment should be considered in all patients on CNB, especially with telehealth. Clinicians should rule out contributing etiologies ...

MulPi: A Multi-class and Patient-independent Epileptic Seizure Classifier with Co-designed Input-stationary Computing-in-SRAM - Unprovoked seizures have threatened epilepsy patients over 70 million. Automated classification to detect and predict seizures could bring seizure-free lives to epilepsy patients, delivering them from fatal danger and increasing the quality of life. Authentic detection and prediction of seizures require 1) multi-class (Mul) and 2) patient-independent (Pi) classification. Recent implementable ch...

Intersection of epilepsy and cardiac health: Insights from electrocardiography and syndromic associations - Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition marked by recurrent, uncontrolled seizures. Identifying comorbidities in epilepsy is critical for preventing mortality. Among these, the autonomic nervous system's role in epilepsy often manifests as cardiac disorders. Patients with epilepsy (PWE), particularly those with poorly controlled seizures, have a higher prevalence of cardiac pathologies com...

The Importance of Impedance: A Case of Responsive Neurostimulation Failure Characterized by Concurrent Stereoelectroencephalography - Epilepsy neuromodulation treatment failure is a significant challenge, with multiple possible causes. The responsive neurostimulation (RNS) system delivers stimulation from a single current source, and the relative flow of the electrical current through each stimulating contact is inversely proportional to the relative impedance of each contact. Current shunting through low-impedance contacts (...

Concordant interictal stereoelectroencephalographic high-frequency oscillations and magnetoencephalography predict better surgical outcomes in focal epilepsy - OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to investigate the concordance between magnetoencephalographic (MEG) and interictal stereoelectroencephalographic (SEEG) high-frequency oscillations (HFOs) and their impact on surgical outcomes.

Relative roles of HCN4 and synaptic excitation in pyramidal neuron firing rates in a hyperactive Rheb-mTOR condition - OBJECTIVE: De novo somatic mutations in mTOR pathway genes during fetal development lead to focal malformation of cortical development (FMCD) and epilepsy. This FMCD is characterized by misplacement of enlarged pyramidal neurons displaying increased mTOR activity. Whether these neurons display enhanced excitability has remained an open question. Several lines of evidence in experimental murine ...

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.