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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 ...

Study: Epilepsy patients benefit from structured 'seizure action plans' - A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status. These ...

Seizure action plans: More than management tools for epilepsy - Newswise — 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 ...

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 ...

Epilepsy R&D is breaking out of its old playbook - Genetic medicines and more selective small molecules are finally pushing the field toward new mechanisms — and potentially disease-modifying treatments.

Epilepsy treatment beyond brain surgery: How neuromodulation can help control seizures when medicines fail - When you hear the words “brain surgery,” it is absolutely normal to feel terrified. For a person living with epilepsy, the thought of having a part of the brain operated on can be even more concerning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Association of depression and epilepsy in rural northern Rwanda: a prospective longitudinal study with a patient-centered approach - CONCLUSIONS: Kinyarwanda PHQ-9 and HDRS versions were successfully deployed for screening and diagnosing depression symptoms in PwE in rural settings. Treatment of epilepsy and co-morbid depression improved clinical outcomes. Implementation of depression screening in routine health practice in Rwanda is warranted.

Prevalence and potential risk factors associated with idiopathic epilepsy in Golden Retrievers - CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE: Golden retrievers have an increased risk of IE, often presenting with cluster seizures. The association between IE and gastrointestinal disease might lead to new therapeutic strategies, but further investigations are needed.

Efficacy of Levetiracetam Combined with Sodium Valproate (Oral) in the Treatment of Senile Epilepsy and Its Effects on Cognitive Function, Inflammatory Factors and Neurotransmitters - CONCLUSION: Levetiracetam combined with sodium valproate demonstrated superior comprehensive efficacy in the treatment of senile epilepsy. This regimen effectively improved seizure control, cognitive function, inflammatory status, and neurotransmitter balance, supporting its value as a reliable therapeutic option for elderly patients with epilepsy under routine clinical conditions and standardi...

The Gut Microbiota-Epilepsy Axis: Bibliometric Trends, Mechanistic Insights, and Microbiota-Targeted Next-Generation Therapeutic Opportunities - Epilepsy is a complex neurological disorder with diverse underlying causes. Growing evidence suggests that gut dysbiosis may promote epileptogenesis by disrupting short-chain fatty acids, tryptophan-kynurenine metabolism, immune signaling, and neuronal excitability. In this review, we combine findings from human and animal studies to explain how gut dysbiosis may influence seizures through the ...

Taking a clinical history in adolescents and adults presenting with seizures or epilepsy - Despite advances in EEG, neuroimaging, and other diagnostic technologies, a carefully obtained clinical history remains the cornerstone of diagnosis, classification, and treatment planning. However, structured guidance on history-taking that integrates state-of-the-art evidence and the updated 2025 International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) seizure classification is limited. We performed a re...

Interaction Between Peripheral Cytokines and Central Neuroinflammation in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - CONCLUSION: [^(18)F]DPA-714 PET/MRI precisely demonstrates focal neuroinflammation in TLE patients, correlating with clinical severity, yet the lack of correlation with peripheral markers highlights that peripheral and central immune responses represent distinct and relatively independent inflammatory processes in TLE.

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.