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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In HelloNation, Nervous System Health Expert Dr. Mikala Reznik, PT, DPT, ICP, CRNC Explains Microcurrent Neurofeedback for Focus - Can microcurrent neurofeedback help adults improve focus? A HelloNation article explains how this non-invasive therapy works and what people considering it should expect.

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 ...

Refractory Temporal Gelastic Seizure: A Case Report - Gelastic seizures are rare epileptic events characterized by sudden, unprovoked bursts of laughter that are typically associated with hypothalamic hamartomas but may also arise from cortical epileptogenic foci. We report the case of an eight-year-old boy born prematurely at 28 weeks' gestation who presented with a two-year history of recurrent hypermotor seizures, loss of consciousness, behavio...

A Novel Homozygous Frameshift GTPBP2 Variant in Jaberi-Elahi Syndrome: First Case Report from Türkiye - CONCLUSION: Jaberi-Elahi syndrome should be considered in infants with severe congenital microcephaly, developmental delay, seizures, and craniofacial features, particularly in the context of consanguinity and abnormal brain MRI. This report expands the molecular and clinical spectrum of Jaberi-Elahi syndrome.

Remarkable Clinical Improvement after Folinic Acid Supplementation in Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency and Epileptic Encephalopathy: A Case Report - CONCLUSION: This case illustrates that folinic acid supplementation can lead to remarkable neurological recovery, even with substantial diagnostic delay. FOLR1-related CFTD should be considered in children with refractory epilepsy and developmental regression.

Functional connectivity predictors and mechanisms of symptom change in functional neurological disorder - Clinical trajectories in patients with functional neurological disorder (FND) are variable, and the neural mechanisms underlying this heterogeneity remain poorly understood. This longitudinal brain imaging study examined resting-state functional connectivity predictors and mechanisms of symptom change in FND. Thirty-two adults with FND (motor and/or seizure phenotypes) completed baseline questi...

Hidden labour of caregiving for persons with epilepsy in Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, South Africa: a qualitative study - Caregiving for persons with epilepsy is frequently conceptualised in terms of burden and stigma; however, such framings often obscure the labour-intensive nature of everyday caregiving practices. In rural South Africa, informal caregivers undertake extensive unpaid work that sustains the safety, well-being, and treatment continuity of persons with epilepsy. This study aimed to explore the hidde...

Biomarkers associated with blood-brain interface regulation and relationships to exercise and epilepsy: a brief review - Epilepsy is characterized by disordered brain networks where blood-brain interface (BBI) dysfunction, neuroinflammation, and progressive neuronal injury play central roles, yet these processes remain challenging to quantify. Circulating and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers have emerged as promising tools to capture BBI integrity, astroglial and neuroaxonal damage, and cumulative disease burden ac...

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.