Epilepsy News

Tragedy Strikes: Man with Epilepsy Falls Into Bonfire - A 50-year-old man, Basawan, suffering from epilepsy, tragically died after he fell into a bonfire during a seizure in Bhakora village. The police reported that his body was found half-burnt by ...

What to know about epilepsy and seizure first aid - November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. Many people may already be aware of the condition from its prevalence in medical dramas, but that portrayal is often exaggerated and does not fully encapsulate ...

‘Unique’ AI-powered headset that can predict epilepsy seizures developed - A “unique” AI-powered headset that can predict epileptic seizures minutes before they occur has been developed by scientists in Scotland. The Glasgow Caledonian University team behind the research say ...

First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - The first seizure clinic model enabled rapid diagnosis and treatment for children with epilepsy, according to data presented at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting. These specialized ...

Many people have seizures. Here's why it doesn’t always mean epilepsy - One of the most common causes of epilepsy is a structural brain abnormality. “Epilepsy can result from structural issues in the brain, such as brain tumors, brain injuries, brain infections or ...

National Epilepsy Day: 4 Effective ways to help with seizure control - National Epilepsy Day is marked on November 17, which serves as a reminder to raise awareness about epilepsy and support those living with this neurological condition. Epilepsy is a disorder of the ...

Fenfluramine linked to significantly improved seizure outcomes vs. placebo at 14 weeks - Individuals with a rare form of epilepsy treated with fenfluramine experienced significantly greater seizure reduction as well as clinically meaningful global functioning improvement compared with ...

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 ...

AI-powered headset can predict epilepsy seizures before they occur - Scientists hope the device can help give patients more warning ahead of seizures and prevent potential injuries ...

What Is Epilepsy Surgery? - Medications can control seizures in most people with epilepsy, but they don’t work for everyone. About 30% of people taking the drugs can’t tolerate the side effects. In some cases, brain surgery may ...

Rewiring Your Brain: Neurofeedback Goes Mainstream - Will Strahl walked up to my door with a massive black briefcase in his hand, the kind you could use to tote a dirty bomb. Once inside my living room, he cracked open the case and removed a laptop, a ...

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 ...

How Neurofeedback Can Help You - Neurofeedback is a computer-guided, noninvasive brain-function training based on EEG feedback. Neurofeedback is also called “neurotherapy,” “neurobiofeedback,” or “electroencephalography” (EEG) ...

Brain-training game may ease chronic pain without drugs - Chronic pain has long forced patients into a trade-off between constant discomfort and the side effects of powerful drugs. A new brain-training video game suggests that, for at least some people, ...

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 ...

Anti-seizure potential of J4, an equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 inhibitor, in a mouse model of tuberous sclerosis complex in response to pentylenetetrazol - Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with epileptic seizures caused by genetic mutations in either TSC1 or TSC2 gene. Multiple genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors can affect the phenotypical outcomes of TSC individuals. Accumulating evidence has shown that the seizures occurred in early life may contribute to the epileptogenesis and aggravate the neurolog...

Clinical and genetic findings of three patients with chorea-acanthocytosis - CONCLUSIONS: ChAc should be considered in case of patients featuring a plethora of diffuse symptoms showing multisystemic involvement. Comprehensive genetic testing in patients with complex neurological symptoms might improve diagnostic accuracy and enhance knowledge of genotype-phenotype correlations in ChAc.

Primary oculoleptomeningeal transthyretin amyloidosis with subarachnoid hemorrhages, visual loss, and heart and skin amyloid deposits - OBJECTIVE: Primary oculoleptomeningeal amyloidosis (OLMA) is a rare hereditary transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis (ATTRv) associated with specific TTR variants. p.Arg54Gly is characterized by an ocular phenotype with vitreous opacities and chronic open-angle glaucoma.

Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy syndrome in a child with an underlying hypomyelinating leukodystrophy: a previously unreported association - This case report describes a unique case of hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy syndrome in a paediatric patient with an underlying hypomyelinating leukodystrophy. We present the clinical, neuroimaging and genetic findings of a 3-year-old girl with a myelin deposition disorder who presented with a prolonged febrile status epilepticus, followed by persistent left hemiplegia. Brain magnetic resona...

Timing is everything: Expert opinion on researching epilepsy rhythms by the ILAE Task Force on Chronobiology - Recurrent seizures, the hallmark of epilepsy, are influenced by rhythms operating over multiple timescales. Chronobiology is the study of biological timing that aims to explain temporal patterns of events like seizures. Fueled by recent advances in genetics, computational modeling, and device engineering, the chronobiology of epilepsy is now a burgeoning field poised to shed new light on mechan...

A temporary spike: Investigating Lennox-Gastaut syndrome incidence in the US following FDA approval of cannabidiol - OBJECTIVE: In June 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pharmaceutical grade cannabidiol (CBD; Epidiolex®) for the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS). We sought to examine whether the FDA approval of CBD was associated with changes in LGS diagnostic practices in the United States.

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.