Epilepsy News

Teacher with Epilepsy from Viral Seizure Video Shares Advice for Others Navigating Chronic Illness at Work (Exclusive) - For Yareli Jessica Gijon, one of the biggest lessons she's learned while living with epilepsy is that asking for help is not a weakness. The 33-year-old California teacher, who recently went viral ...

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 ...

Opinion | If a student had a seizure in the classroom, would your school be prepared? - "A parent whose child has epilepsy shouldn’t have to send an email in August asking whether anyone in the building knows what to do," high schooler Rishik Kondadadi writes.

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 ...

New tools map seizures in the brain, improve epilepsy treatment - Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that part ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assessing a reduced-channel algorithm for end-to-end seizure detection on multiday EEG using inter-rater agreement with epileptologists - Automated electrographic seizure detection software often rely on the high channel counts of traditional electroencephalography (EEG) recording systems. However, these systems are notoriously cumbersome, limiting both the duration of and access to EEG monitoring. Recent medical-grade wearable devices approach these issues by using small, discreet sensors and reduced channels for ease of use dur...

Long-term seizure outcomes in patients with drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy due to hippocampal sclerosis - CONCLUSION: 62% of the patients were classified as Engel I. Although previous studies have suggested that certain factors may influence prognosis, our findings did not yield any statistically significant results in this regard. It is crucial that patients undergo surgical evaluation without delay to achieve seizure control and improve cognitive function.

Corrigendum to "The efficacy and safety of ketogenic diet therapy among adolescents and adults with drug resistant epilepsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis" [Seizure: European Journal of Epi... - No abstract

SCN1A-related epilepsy with spike-wave activation in sleep: A retrospective cohort and literature review - CONCLUSIONS: SWAS may occur during the disease course of SCN1A-related epilepsy, often several years after seizure onset. These findings support serial sleep EEG follow-up and careful monitoring for developmental or behavioral changes in children with SCN1A-related epilepsy.

Utility and limitations of cortico-cortical evoked potentials in pediatric resective epilepsy surgery: illustrative case - BACKGROUND: The authors present the case of a 15-year-old male who underwent resection of a left parieto-occipital long-term epilepsy-associated tumor (LEAT) near the language and visual tracts. Tractography-guided dorsal language stream cortico-cortical evoked potentials (CCEPs) and visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were used intraoperatively under general anesthesia to minimize postoperative de...

Stereo-electroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation in patients with implanted neuromodulation devices: patient series - BACKGROUND: The authors aimed to evaluate the feasibility/safety of stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) and SEEG-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RFTC) in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy previously implanted with neuromodulation devices, using a retrospective cohort design evaluating patients treated at the Mayo Clinic Florida Epilepsy Center.

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.