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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 ...

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 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 ...

New tech gives hope for a million people with epilepsy - Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. About three million people in the United States have epilepsy, including about a million who can't rely on medication to control ...

Northwell study reveals hope for significant seizure reduction in chronic epilepsy - MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the millions of people worldwide living with severe forms of epilepsy, some do not respond to medication and it can be difficult to find lasting relief. Patients ...

Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy, so it is a relatively common diagnosis. In fact, it is the fourth ...

Reflex Epilepsy: How Flashing Lights, Music, Hot Showers, and Reading Trigger Seizures - Reflex epilepsy is a rare seizure disorder in which flashing lights, music, hot showers, or reading can trigger seizures in susceptible individuals.

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

EMDR and Neurofeedback Helped Me Become a Better Founder - After that session, my confidence hit a low; I wondered if my company would be better off without me. My team didn’t realize that besides managing the major growth of the company, over the last eight ...

Brain training with neurofeedback shows enhanced benefits on cognitive functions - Neurofeedback has been used for decades to reinforce healthy brain functions. With previous research reporting a positive correlation between enhanced brain activities during brain training and ...

Efficacy and sleep impact of perampanel versus levetiracetam monotherapy for SeLECTS: A pilot prospective cohort study - CONCLUSION: Both LEV and PER monotherapy were tolerated and associated with short-term seizure control in children with SeLECTS. There are some indications that PER may offer small additional benefits for the sleep architecture, resulting in a decrease in the proportion of N1 and NAW. However, prospective studies with longer follow-up are needed to confirm the observations.

Exploring the caregiver journey through randomized controlled trials in dravet syndrome: insights from a cross-sectional survey - CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this is the first survey exploring the caregivers' perceptions of participation in epilepsy clinical trials. Patient and stakeholder engagement is essential for optimizing trial recruitment, acceptance and understanding of the failures.

Treatment engagement and 12-month outcomes after diagnostic communication and individualized treatment planning in patients with functional neurological disorder - OBJECTIVES: To evaluate treatment engagement and 12-month outcomes following structured diagnostic communication and individualized treatment planning in inpatients with the most common functional neurological disorder (FND) presentations encountered in epilepsy services and to explore the relationship between treatment engagement and adherence.

Alpha power and brain functional connectivity as signatures of altered network dynamics in functional/dissociative seizures: A proof of concept study - CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that FDS are characterized by a paradoxical hypersynchronization in the EEG alpha band, similar to EC, despite concurrent motor activity. Increased functional alpha connectivity, simultaneous with elevated heart rate during FDS, suggests that FDSs involve altered brain network dynamics rather than simple alpha power suppression by voluntary motor activity. These...

Time over drug in pediatric status epilepticus: A prospective observational study - Convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) is a time-sensitive neurological emergency in which delayed treatment may contribute to pharmacoresistance and poor outcomes. Evidence comparing third-line antiseizure medications in children remains limited. Objective To compare intravenous lacosamide and phenytoin in pediatric refractory CSE and to determine whether treatment timing predicts seizure cessati...

Tachycardia during seizures in ambulatory EEG-ECG monitoring: a retrospective cohort study - CONCLUSIONS: In ambulatory monitoring, clinically documented sinus tachycardia occurs in one third of seizures, substantially lower than some inpatient estimates. Clinically documented ictal sinus tachycardia is associated with seizure duration, is more common in focal seizures, and demonstrates marked variability within individuals.

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.