Epilepsy News

Why treating epilepsy isn't just about stopping seizures - Epilepsy was viewed for a long time as a disorder of sudden electrical disruption, but we now know the story is more complex ...

Major shortage of vital epilepsy drug taken by thousands – as man dies after being left without medication - HUNDREDS of thousands of Brits could be left without a life-saving epilepsy drug as the NHS faces a shortage of vital seizure medication. The shortage comes as a coroner blamed a shortage of ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy symptoms improved with antiseizure medication - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monthly seizure frequency percentage reduction was 68.73% for the entire study cohort. For those followed up in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A systematic review of non-invasive biomarkers for seizure forecasting in pediatric epilepsy patients - INTRODUCTION: Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders globally. While medications, surgical interventions, and dietary changes can be successful in controlling seizures, a subset of individuals experience refractory epilepsy and are at increased risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Efforts to provide a detection system using devices have been successful at ide...

Growing up without a right hemisphere - Research on the neuropsychological outcomes of hemispherectomy in childhood has largely focused on the development of language after surgery to the left hemisphere. That work has highlighted both the positive aspects of neural plasticity in that language representation is transferred to the right hemisphere and the negative aspects - the crowding effect- in that aspects of visual-spatial proces...

Susceptibility to seizures and expression of fibroblast growth factor 17 in rats with Cortical dysplasia and its effects on the hippocampal neurons - CONCLUSION: Rats with CD exhibit decreased Fgf17 expression and increased epileptogenic susceptibility, which may be associated with reduced number of hippocampal neurons.

Electroencephalographic Abnormalities in Children with Single Calcified Neurocysticercosis Lesion: A Cross-Sectional Study - CONCLUSIONS: There was significant concordance between clinical, electrical, and radiological localization of CNL. Frontal and temporal lobe were most common symptomatic zones for focal epilepsy in this cohort.

Electrophysiological Brain Connectivity and Subjective States Evoked by Electrical Stimulation of the Human Mid-Thalamus - Recent developments in intracranial EEG (iEEG) allow direct recordings from the human thalamus, offering new insight into thalamocortical relationships in the human brain. In this study, we applied direct intracranial electrical stimulation (iES) to the mid-thalamus, within or close to the mediodorsal nucleus, to examine its impact on conscious experience and causal brain connectivity in 30 pat...

Untreated epilepsy and pregnancy - CONCLUSIONS: The outcomes of the presence or absence of ASM therapy during pregnancy were not statistically significantly different in relation to the occurrences of seizure freedom and FM but the lower occurrence of FM in the untreated pregnancies was at the P

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.