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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 ...

Seizure or epilepsy? Understanding the critical difference could save lives - A sudden episode of shaking, confusion, or loss of awareness can be frightening - but does it mean epilepsy? Understanding the difference between a seizure and epilepsy is crucial for timely treatment ...

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 ...

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. A new study suggests that the memory-forming stage of sleep could be key for understanding epileptic seizures. . | Credit: ...

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 ...

Camelback Recovery Launches Neurofeedback Therapy at Its Phoenix Treatment Center - Camelback Recovery has launched neurofeedback therapy at its Phoenix treatment center, expanding the care options available within its mental health and addiction programs. Phoenix, Arizona--(Newsfile ...

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 virtual reality is changing brain-training technology - Integrating virtual reality into brain-training therapies can make the experience more enjoyable and engaging for users. A recent review published in the journal Applied Psychophysiology and ...

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 ...

Seizure due to Lamotrigine Underexposure During High-Volume CRRT for Hyperammonaemia: A Case Report - CONCLUSION: This case underscores the clinical significance of extracorporeal clearance of antiseizure medications during CRRT in patients with UCDs. Drug selection should consider both ammonia-modifying and dialysability profiles. Therapeutic drug monitoring and pre-emptive dose adjustment, or the addition of a second intravenously available agent, should be considered when high-volume dialysi...

Functional and pharmacological characterization of the SCN2A variant p.C258R with mixed gain and loss of function causing developmental and epileptic encephalopathy type 11 - Pathogenic variants in SCN2A cause dysfunction of the Na(V)1.2 voltage-gated sodium channel and are associated with neurodevelopmental disorders with or without epilepsy. Treatment of epilepsy in these patients is challenging and depends on whether the variant results in a gain (GoF) or loss of function (LoF). We describe a patient with the de novo SCN2A variant p.C258R presenting with therapy-...

Benign Pneumoperitoneum: A Case Report and Literature Review - Pneumoperitoneum is almost always considered as a warning sign of hollow visceral perforation and requires an urgent surgical review. However, free air within the peritoneal cavity does not always indicate a surgical emergency. In some cases, pneumoperitoneum can occur without true visceral perforation. Recognising this key difference is crucial to avoid unnecessary surgical intervention. A six...

Multi-modal connectome analysis of the stereoelectroencephalography implantation effect: a case report - Stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) may induce seizure reduction in some patients, known as the implantation effect, but its network mechanism remains unclear. We investigated whether SEEG electrode insertion is associated with measurable brain network reorganisation using longitudinal multi-modal analysis. We studied a patient with drug-resistant right temporal lobe epilepsy who experienced se...

Case Report: Seizure freedom after resection of a temporal choroidal fissure cyst in drug-resistant epilepsy - CONCLUSION: We identified a rare epileptogenic origin. Neuroimaging revealed a right-sided choroidal fissure cyst corresponding to the epileptogenic zone. Combined SEEG and intraoperative ECoG, used for the first time, confirmed an epileptogenic focus adjacent to the cyst, with seizures originating from the hippocampal head and body. The available histopathological specimens showed no definite ...

Clinical and Genetic Analysis of Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Disorders With Complex Chromosomal Rearrangements in Two Cases - CONCLUSIONS: Combining chromosome karyotype analysis with WES and/or WGS can accurately locate chromosomal breakpoints and provide more accurate genetic information. It is an important approach for integrated diagnosis.

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.