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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 ...

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 ...

Frequent Cannabis Use Tied to Greater Seizure Burden in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - Frequent cannabis users with drug-resistant epilepsy have more convulsive seizures and require more antiseizure medications, but researchers caution that the findings do not establish causation.

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 ...

Does Levetiracetam Improve Seizure Outcomes in Pediatric Epilepsy? - Although levetiracetam was associated with improved seizure outcomes compared with placebo in pediatric epilepsy, it did not demonstrate superior efficacy when compared with established active ...

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 ...

What Does a Neurofeedback Technician Do? - Neurofeedback is about helping a client's brain learn to self-regulate by showing it its own EEG activity on a screen or through headphones. It is like going to the gym for your brain. It is not a ...

Elite athletes enhance their performance with 'neurofeedback'—and you can get a device for $99 - When you think of the training tools that professional athletes have at their disposal, high-tech sports equipment and state-of-the-art athletic facilities come to mind. But training for peak ...

Novel neurofeedback technique enhances awareness of mind-wandering - Everyone knows the feeling. You are trying to concentrate on driving or studying, or paying attention in a boring meeting, but suddenly, you realize that you are thinking about something irrelevant to ...

Complementing Engel Classification: Postoperative Scalp EEG as an Objective Indicator in SEEG-Guided Radiofrequency Thermocoagulation-A Seizure-Onset Pattern-Based Stratified Analysis - CONCLUSION: In this cohort, LVFA-present SOPs are strongly associated with favorable RFTC outcomes and may represent a prerequisite for postoperative scalp EEG normalization. Postoperative EEG is a sensitive objective endpoint that complements Engel classification. Systematic PET evaluation in larger cohorts may further refine candidate selection in MRI-negative patients.

Altered oligodendroglial cell development and increased myelination in SCN2A gain-of-function-linked epilepsy - Gain-of-function variants in SCN2A, encoding the voltage-gated sodium channel Na(V)1.2, cause developmental and epileptic encephalopathies characterized by seizures, developmental delay, and white matter abnormalities. While Na(V)1.2 is known to regulate neuronal excitability, its role in oligodendroglial cells is unclear. Here, we show that Na(V)1.2 is expressed in early oligodendrocyte lineag...

Tumor-related epilepsy and preoperative cognitive performance in glioma: a preliminary study - CONCLUSION: Seizure presentation was associated with better preoperative TMT-A performance after adjustment for selected demographic and tumor-burden factors. The persistence of this association across sensitivity analyses suggests that TRE may capture clinically relevant aspects of the tumor-brain context that are not fully reflected by conventional demographic, pathological, and molecular cha...

Feasibility, Acceptability, and Appropriateness of an 8-Week Supervised Aerobic Exercise Intervention for Adults With Epilepsy: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial - CONCLUSIONS: The results of this Phase IIb pilot study suggest that a supervised aerobic exercise intervention for adults with epilepsy is feasible, acceptable, and appropriate to implement among participants who enroll. Recruitment remains the primary challenge to progressing this line of research and may represent a broader field-level barrier. Future trials should focus on improving how adul...

Comparison of the efficacy and safety of lacosamide and oxcarbazepine monotherapy in young children aged 1 month to 4 years with focal epilepsy: An ambispective cohort study based on real-world cli... - CONCLUSION: In real-world clinical practice in China, LCM monotherapy demonstrated efficacy and safety comparable to those of OXC in young children with focal epilepsy, suggesting that LCM may represent an alternative option for off-label use in this age group. Its potential benefit for language development warrants further investigation.

Pioneering Epilepsy Surgery in Cameroon: Outcomes from the First Prospective Cohort of Surgical Patients with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy - CONCLUSION: Epilepsy surgery was feasible in our resource-limited setting and was associated with encouraging short-term seizure and quality-of-life outcomes in carefully selected patients with MRI-visible, electroclinically concordant DRE who were able to complete presurgical evaluation. Larger multicentre studies with longer follow-up are needed to determine the durability and generalizabilit...

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.