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Why treating epilepsy isn't just about stopping seizures - Epilepsy was viewed for a long time as a disorder of sudden electrical disruption, but we now know the story is more complex ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

Major shortage of vital epilepsy drug taken by thousands – as man dies after being left without medication - HUNDREDS of thousands of Brits could be left without a life-saving epilepsy drug as the NHS faces a shortage of vital seizure medication. The shortage comes as a coroner blamed a shortage of ...

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 ...

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 ...

First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model expedites access to specialists after a first seizure. The mean time between the referral and the ...

Understanding epilepsy: Seven ways to respond to an epileptic seizure - At the forefront of epilepsy research and treatment is the University of Alabama at Birmingham Epilepsy Center, a collaborative initiative between the UAB Department of Neurology and UAB Hospital, ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback gets you back in the zone - Researchers have shown -- for the first time -- that they can use online neurofeedback to modify an individual's arousal state to improve performance in a demanding sensory motor task, such as flying ...

Understanding The Role Of Neurofeedback Technology In Addressing ADHD - Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent challenge in today's educational and professional landscapes. Most of us are familiar with ADHD, either ...

Outcome and epilepsy following neonatal stroke in the Italian Registry of Infantile Thrombosis - CONCLUSION: Mortality and recurrence after NAIS are rare, but neurological deficits occur in about 40%, and epilepsy in 12%. Perinatal and clinical factors may predict adverse outcomes and epilepsy.

Barriers and enablers to antiseizure medication adherence in children with epilepsy: a systematic review using the theoretical domains framework (TDF) - CONCLUSION: These findings provide broad descriptions of the determinants of non-adherence enabling direct linkage to evidence-based BCTs and therefore ultimate creation of theory-informed interventions.

Functional gastrointestinal disorders in adults with epilepsy: associations with psychological symptoms, chronotype, and seizure burden - CONCLUSION: Adults with epilepsy exhibit a substantially increased burden of functional gastrointestinal disorders accompanied by elevated psychological symptoms and altered chronotype distribution. Gastrointestinal symptoms were largely unreported clinically, despite their association with greater disease complexity. Systematic screening for functional gastrointestinal disorders, mood symptoms...

A systematic review of non-invasive biomarkers for seizure forecasting in pediatric epilepsy patients - INTRODUCTION: Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders globally. While medications, surgical interventions, and dietary changes can be successful in controlling seizures, a subset of individuals experience refractory epilepsy and are at increased risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Efforts to provide a detection system using devices have been successful at ide...

Growing up without a right hemisphere - Research on the neuropsychological outcomes of hemispherectomy in childhood has largely focused on the development of language after surgery to the left hemisphere. That work has highlighted both the positive aspects of neural plasticity in that language representation is transferred to the right hemisphere and the negative aspects - the crowding effect- in that aspects of visual-spatial proces...

Susceptibility to seizures and expression of fibroblast growth factor 17 in rats with Cortical dysplasia and its effects on the hippocampal neurons - CONCLUSION: Rats with CD exhibit decreased Fgf17 expression and increased epileptogenic susceptibility, which may be associated with reduced number of hippocampal neurons.

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.