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The link between sleep, brain injury and seizures - New research is uncovering how sleep quality after traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be the key to preventing seizures and reducing the risk of post-traumatic epilepsy.

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 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 ...

High Retention, Seizure-Freedom Rates for Perampanel in Epilepsy - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ―The retention rate for the antiseizure drug perampanel (Eisai Co, Ltd) is more than 70% for adult patients with epilepsy, new research shows. In early results from the PERPRISE ...

EU epilepsy care gap leaves 40% with treatable seizures - As the EU turns global brain health commitments into national action, member states remain far apart on epilepsy care ...

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 ...

What is neurofeedback therapy? - Neurofeedback therapy uses electrical sensors on the head to track brain reactions. The therapy helps with conditions like ADHD, anxiety, and insomnia by changing how the brain functions. Different ...

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 for ADHD: Significant, Lasting Improvement - Computer-based neurofeedback can produce significant and lasting improvement in attention and focus in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...

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 ...

Perceived stigma in drug-resistant epilepsy: Association with vagus nerve stimulation and disease burden - CONCLUSIONS: Patients with DRE treated with VNS appear to experience a greater burden of perceived stigma. The persistence of this association after adjustment for demographic and clinical factors suggests that psychosocial aspects of VNS treatment warrant greater attention.

Pyridoxine/pyridoxal-5'-phosphate repletion to improve outcomes of alcohol withdrawal syndrome and promote long-term abstinence: a hypothesis - CONCLUSION: Pyridoxal-5'-phosphate repletion in alcohol use disorder warrants investigation.

Delayed Surgical Evaluation After Drug-Resistant Epilepsy Diagnosis Worsens Outcomes in Children: A Multicenter Study - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Despite its proven effectiveness, epilepsy surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) remains underutilized and frequently delayed. Previous studies of epilepsy duration before surgery-using variable delay thresholds (2-20 years)-were small, single-center cohorts focused mainly on temporal/frontal lobe epilepsy, showed better seizure freedom with earlier surgery, but d...

The ARHGAP32 isoform PX-RICS is specifically targeted to inhibitory synapses by binding to gephyrin - Precise regulation of excitatory-inhibitory balance is critical for neural circuit function, and its disruption underlies neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and epilepsy. PX-RICS, a major ARHGAP32 splice variant enriched at inhibitory synapses, has been linked to cognitive dysfunctions; however, the molecular basis of its synaptic targeting and function remains ...

Light- and temperature-sensitive seizures are regulated by spatially distinct cortex glial populations in the central nervous system - Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizures due to abnormal neuronal activity originating from a population of neurons. Seizures are often associated with abnormal glial cell function at the seizure focus. Studies have shown that each glial type, such as astrocytes, displays a significant degree of heterogeneity in their development, molecular signatures, and function depending on the brain...

Functional/dissociative seizures as a manifestation of forced normalization in eyelid myoclonia with absence epilepsy - No abstract

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.