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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 ...

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 ...

Why Early Detection of Seizures and Epilepsy Is so Important - For parents, a child having a seizure is one of the most frightening experiences imaginable. While many childhood seizures are brief and isolated, others are more serious and persistent. To make the ...

Seizure or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A seizure is a sudden electrical disturbance in the brain that may occur due to triggers like fever or injury and can be a one-time event. Epilepsy is a chronic condition involving recurrent, ...

EPILEPSY AWARENESS: Local neurologist explains condition & seizure first aid - COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Local experts say epilepsy is not a condition to be afraid of. Piedmont Columbus Regional pediatric neurologist Pierre Fequiere treats patients with epilepsy every day and knows ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new study suggests that ...

Neurophysiological Biomarkers and Targeted Neuromodulation in Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder - Major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder are among the leading causes of disability worldwide. However, their pathophysiological mechanisms ...

Neurofeedback game helps patients with MS manage fatigue - A compassionate neurofeedback game that can identify fatigue aims to help patients with MS, according to a poster presented at Cedars-Sinai’s eighth annual iteration of its Virtual Medicine Conference ...

How Neurofeedback Can Help Troubled Couples Get Back on the Same Wavelength - Dr. David Helfand (left) with a patient. The cap contains 19 electrodes that measure the brain’s electrical activity. Credit: Courtesy When a 10-year romantic relationship ended last spring for ...

What is neurofeedback? Video game-like therapy being used to treat anxiety, ADHD and more - It’s like a gym for your brain. As issues like anxiety, depression and restless sleep have spiked during the pandemic, some people are turning to neurofeedback, a kind of gym for the brain. It’s a ...

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 ...

Different connectivity patterns of MRI-negative drug-resistant epilepsy and drug-sensitive epilepsy in cerebellar and subcortical-cortical regions - Controlling cerebellar output may reduce seizure frequency. However, the involvement of the cerebellum in the development of drug resistance remains unclear. This study aims to elucidate the cerebellar-subcortical/cortical connectivity in drug resistance mechanisms using a multimodal approach. We utilized connectivity to select moderation and mediation models to further investigate the contact ...

Screening for serum antineuronal antibodies in pediatric epilepsy - CONCLUSION: Routine serum screening with standard commercial antibody panel did not identify neuronal antibodies in this pediatric cohort with chronic focal epilepsy. APE score distinguished patients with possible immune etiologies, suggesting that validated clinical scoring systems assist in selecting patients who may benefit from antibody screening in clinical practice.

Personalized music improves epileptiform activity, REM sleep and quality of life in children with epilepsies - CONCLUSION: Personalized music treatment was associated with changes suggestive of decreased epileptiform activity, improved REM sleep, and improved quality of life in this uncontrolled study. This may expand possibilities for adjunctive epilepsy treatment. Further research is needed in larger, randomized trials to confirm this association and evaluate for potential confounding factors.

Self-limited Neonatal Epilepsy associated with global developmental delay and high-threshold sensory profile: A novel KCNQ3 de novo variant unusually located in the voltage sensor S4 segment of the... - CONCLUSION: This study expands the KCNQ3 mutational spectrum and supports the contribution of S4 domain variants to combined epileptic and neurodevelopmental phenotypes, highlighting the value of integrated deep phenotyping and molecular characterization.

Utilization of Stiripentol in Children With Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies: Considerations for Clinical Practice - Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a group of pediatric seizure syndromes, accompanied by developmental delay or regression and cognitive, psychiatric, and/or behavioral impairment. Seizures can be frequent and are typically refractory to treatment with antiseizure medications. In addition to the high burden of disease endured by patients, DEEs are also associated with nega...

Clec7a promotes hippocampal microglial activation in rats with status epilepticus via inducing the TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB signaling pathway - Microglial polarization imbalance between pro-inflammatory M1 and anti-inflammatory M2 phenotypes is a key mechanism in epilepsy-related neuroinflammation. This study explores the role of C-type lectin domain containing 7A (Clec7a) in M1 microglial polarization in epilepsy. An AAV-shClec7a was injected intra-hippocampally into Sprague-Dawley rats prior to induction of status epilepticus (SE) us...

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.