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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 first aid, epilepsy awareness bill signed into law - Legislation aimed at helping South Carolina workplaces respond appropriately when someone experiences a seizure has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.

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 ...

NEURELIS PRESENTS STUDIES ON SEIZURE CLUSTERS AT THE AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING - SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurelis, Inc., today announced details of its presentations at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting to be held December 6-10 in Los Angeles. The ...

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

Neurofeedback Therapists in San Antonio, TX - I use neuroscience-informed individual psychotherapy, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, IFS and Ego State Therapy, DBT, trauma-focused CBT, attachment-based therapy, motivational interviewing, ...

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - Neurofeedback is a noninvasive form of therapy that trains the brain to improve various neurological issues, including chronic pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression and PTSD. Using EEG to monitor real-time ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neurofeedback Gains Popularity and Lab Attention - You sit in a chair, facing a computer screen, while a clinician sticks electrodes to your scalp with a viscous goop that takes days to wash out of your hair. Wires from the sensors connect to a ...

Rasmussen Encephalitis, Case Report And Review Of The Literature - Rasmussen encephalitis is a chronic and progressive inflammatory encephalopathy, responsible for unilateral hemispheric damage causing focal epileptic seizures, hemiparesis and cognitive decline. It is an immune-mediated disease, with constant involvement of T lymphocytes. It generally progresses in three phases: a prodromal phase, an acute phase and a residual phase. The diagnostic criteria ha...

Ketogenic diet in the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy in children: Assessment of clinical efficacy, health care resource consumption, and direct medical costs - CONCLUSIONS: The application of the KD in children with DRE yielded favorable clinical outcomes, characterized by a significant reduction in seizure frequency, decreased consumption of health care resources, and financial savings on DMCs. These findings support the consideration of the KD as a clinically effective and cost-effective treatment approach compared to standard management practices f...

Seizure after IDDS implantation - unrecognized intracranial hypertension associated with intracranial metastases: A case report - RATIONALE: The external intrathecal drug delivery system (IDDS) provides targeted analgesia and serves as an effective therapy for refractory cancer pain. Its known complications include post-dural puncture headache, device malfunction, granuloma formation, and others. Seizures induced by occult intracranial hypertension following IDDS implantation have rarely been reported. This case report de...

Narrative Review: Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Newer Third-Generation Antiseizure Medications for Focal Epilepsy: A New Benchmark in Treatment Outcomes? - CONCLUSION: All third-generation ASMs were effective adjunctive therapies. Cenobamate was associated with higher responder and seizure freedom rates and higher long-term retention rates. Brivaracetam and lacosamide had favorable tolerability profiles. The notable seizure freedom rates with cenobamate suggest a potential new benchmark in focal seizure treatment. Comparator trials are needed to c...

Increased Libido Following Brivaracetam Initiation: A Case Report of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - BACKGROUND: Sexual dysfunction is a common comorbidity in patients with epilepsy; it correlates with seizure frequency and right temporal lobe epilepsy and affects quality of life (QOL). Despite its clinical significance, sexual dysfunction is often underassessed in clinical practice. Brivaracetam (BRV), an anti-seizure medication (ASM) introduced in recent years, is considered to have few psyc...

Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Instability in Children With Epilepsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cyclic Alternating Patterns - Sleep and epilepsy share a bidirectional relationship, with epilepsy disrupting sleep microstructure in ways that remain poorly understood in children. The cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) quantifies non-rapid eye movement sleep instability through cortical arousal fluctuations, but paediatric-specific evidence is scarce. We systematically searched four databases through December 2025 for studi...

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.