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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 therapy? - Neurofeedback therapy uses electrical sensors on the head to track brain reactions. The therapy helps with conditions like ADHD, anxiety, and insomnia by changing how the brain functions. Different ...
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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 ...
Neurofeedback for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...
What is neurofeedback therapy? - Neurofeedback therapy uses electrical sensors on the head to track brain reactions. The therapy helps with conditions like ADHD, anxiety, and insomnia by changing how the brain functions. Different ...
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 ...
Neurofeedback for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...
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Beneficial effects of turmeric oil and sunflower seed oil in the rapid kindling rat model of epileptogenesis -
CONCLUSIONS: Both vehicle and turmeric oil exerted anti-ictogenic effects in the rapid kindling model, without attenuating kindling-induced gliosis. Notably, turmeric oil showed modest short-term persistence of its anti-ictogenic effects after washout, consistent with either a transient residual pharmacological action or a limited modulation of seizure progression within this paradigm, but not ...
Clinical characteristics and factors associated with preoperative neurodevelopment in children with Rasmussen encephalitis: A single-centre retrospective study of 51 patients - CONCLUSION: Preoperative neurodevelopmental status in children with RE was heterogeneous, with overall scores in the borderline range. Contralateral independent epileptiform discharges were independently associated with lower FSDQ/IQ, although the underlying mechanisms and clinical significance of this association remain uncertain. These findings support close developmental monitoring and indiv...
Beyond seizure control: A qualitative study on the behavioural profiles of self-management in adolescents with epilepsy in western China - CONCLUSION: Recognizing the four distinct self-management profiles among AWEs enables clinicians to develop tailored, stepped intervention strategies that align with each patient's behavioral characteristics, potentially improving early risk identification, transitional care coordination, and long-term quality of life.
Prolonged postictal hypercapnia is associated with delayed recovery of consciousness after generalized convulsive seizure - BACKGROUND: Postictal impairment of breathing and arousal is a significant contributor in many SUDEP cases. Central CO(2) chemoreception, which mediates ventilatory response, is often blunted after generalized convulsive seizures (GCS). It is plausible that the central chemoreceptors that mediate arousal in response to hypercapnia are similarly impaired after GCS, thereby contributing to delaye...
Focal epilepsy expands the phenotype of FUS-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Epileptic seizures are an exceedingly rare manifestation in classic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Emerging case reports suggest a potential link between ALS associated with FUS gene mutations (FUS-ALS) and seizures, expanding the disease's phenotypic spectrum. A 25-year-old man presented with a 5-month history of rapidly progressive limb weakness, atrophy, and both upper and lower motor ...
Photosensitivity in Lafora and Unverricht-Lundborg progressive myoclonic epilepsies - OBJECTIVE: Lafora disease (LD) and Unverricht-Lundborg disease (EPM1A) are the most common forms of progressive myoclonic epilepsy and are frequently associated with photosensitivity and photic reflex myoclonus (PRM). This study aimed to characterize the photoparoxysmal response (PPR), evaluate the effect of blue lenses, and explore the neural networks underlying PPR and PRM in both conditions.
Clinical characteristics and factors associated with preoperative neurodevelopment in children with Rasmussen encephalitis: A single-centre retrospective study of 51 patients - CONCLUSION: Preoperative neurodevelopmental status in children with RE was heterogeneous, with overall scores in the borderline range. Contralateral independent epileptiform discharges were independently associated with lower FSDQ/IQ, although the underlying mechanisms and clinical significance of this association remain uncertain. These findings support close developmental monitoring and indiv...
Beyond seizure control: A qualitative study on the behavioural profiles of self-management in adolescents with epilepsy in western China - CONCLUSION: Recognizing the four distinct self-management profiles among AWEs enables clinicians to develop tailored, stepped intervention strategies that align with each patient's behavioral characteristics, potentially improving early risk identification, transitional care coordination, and long-term quality of life.
Prolonged postictal hypercapnia is associated with delayed recovery of consciousness after generalized convulsive seizure - BACKGROUND: Postictal impairment of breathing and arousal is a significant contributor in many SUDEP cases. Central CO(2) chemoreception, which mediates ventilatory response, is often blunted after generalized convulsive seizures (GCS). It is plausible that the central chemoreceptors that mediate arousal in response to hypercapnia are similarly impaired after GCS, thereby contributing to delaye...
Focal epilepsy expands the phenotype of FUS-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Epileptic seizures are an exceedingly rare manifestation in classic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Emerging case reports suggest a potential link between ALS associated with FUS gene mutations (FUS-ALS) and seizures, expanding the disease's phenotypic spectrum. A 25-year-old man presented with a 5-month history of rapidly progressive limb weakness, atrophy, and both upper and lower motor ...
Photosensitivity in Lafora and Unverricht-Lundborg progressive myoclonic epilepsies - OBJECTIVE: Lafora disease (LD) and Unverricht-Lundborg disease (EPM1A) are the most common forms of progressive myoclonic epilepsy and are frequently associated with photosensitivity and photic reflex myoclonus (PRM). This study aimed to characterize the photoparoxysmal response (PPR), evaluate the effect of blue lenses, and explore the neural networks underlying PPR and PRM in both conditions.
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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.
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.