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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 ...

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 ...

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 or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A sudden episode of shaking, confusion, or loss of awareness can be frightening - but does it mean epilepsy? Understanding the difference between a seizure and epilepsy is crucial for timely treatment ...

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: ...

Seizure first aid, epilepsy awareness bill signed into law - Legislation aimed at helping South Carolina workplaces respond appropriately when someone experiences a seizure has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.

The brain has its own thermostat. A study shows epilepsy may interfere with it - Doctors have long known that changes in body temperature can affect seizure activity. Fever can trigger seizures in some young children, while in rare forms of epilepsy, bathing in hot water can bring ...

Does Levetiracetam Improve Seizure Outcomes in Pediatric Epilepsy? - Although levetiracetam was associated with improved seizure outcomes compared with placebo in pediatric epilepsy, it did not demonstrate superior efficacy when compared with established active ...

Epilepsy Alliance Louisiana offers seizure first aid training in Baton Rouge - The Epilepsy Alliance Louisiana is holding seizure first aid and safety training classes to help people recognize the signs of a seizure. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in ten ...

Neurofeedback Therapists in San Antonio, TX - I use neuroscience-informed individual psychotherapy, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, IFS and Ego State Therapy, DBT, trauma-focused CBT, attachment-based therapy, motivational interviewing, ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - Neurofeedback is a noninvasive form of therapy that trains the brain to improve various neurological issues, including chronic pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD. Using EEG to monitor real-time ...

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 ...

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 ...

Increased Libido Following Brivaracetam Initiation: A Case Report of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - BACKGROUND: Sexual dysfunction is a common comorbidity in patients with epilepsy; it correlates with seizure frequency and right temporal lobe epilepsy and affects quality of life (QOL). Despite its clinical significance, sexual dysfunction is often underassessed in clinical practice. Brivaracetam (BRV), an anti-seizure medication (ASM) introduced in recent years, is considered to have few psyc...

Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Instability in Children With Epilepsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cyclic Alternating Patterns - Sleep and epilepsy share a bidirectional relationship, with epilepsy disrupting sleep microstructure in ways that remain poorly understood in children. The cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) quantifies non-rapid eye movement sleep instability through cortical arousal fluctuations, but paediatric-specific evidence is scarce. We systematically searched four databases through December 2025 for studi...

Autoimmune-associated epilepsy: definitions and diagnosis - a narrative review - Autoimmune-associated epilepsy (AAE) is an increasingly-recognized condition in which seizures result from immune-mediated mechanisms, such as Rasmussen's encephalitis and antibody-associated epilepsies. Its timely identification may enable more efficacious therapy and improve outcomes. The current paper aims to provide a clinically-oriented review of AAE, focusing on clinical identification, u...

Using large language models to investigate patients' and caregivers' perceptions on SUDEP: A case study with an online epilepsy population - CONCLUSION: Despite clinicians' reluctance to discuss SUDEP due to fear of increasing patient anxiety, this study shows that knowledge about SUDEP may lead to proactive risk management without long-term emotional harm. Early, honest communication is desired by patients and caregivers and vital for implementing preventive strategies.

Transitional objects and objective clinical signs in functional/dissociative seizures and epileptic seizures: A comparative study - OBJECTIVE: Functional/Dissociative Seizures (FDS), formerly known as psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, are common in tertiary epilepsy centers and remain challenging to distinguish from epileptic seizures. Beyond semiological features, additional behavioral markers such as the presence of transitional objects have been proposed as potential diagnostic clues. This study aimed to assess whether ...

Distributed gray-white matter structural covariance alterations and interindividual heterogeneity in adolescents with functional/dissociative seizures - CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents with FDS exhibit distributed gray-white matter structural covariance alterations and marked interindividual heterogeneity rather than focal structural abnormalities. These findings support a distributed structural framework in which latent gray-white matter covariance patterns reflect vulnerability-related structural organization rather than current symptom severity.

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.