Epilepsy News

What's Behind a Woman's 43-Year History of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy? - The patient's medical history indicated that she had been diagnosed with drug-resistant epilepsy more than 40 years before, at the age of 12, reported Seyed Mirsattari, MD, PhD, of Western University ...

Are Epilepsy Patients At Greater Risk of Depression? Expert Explains - Depression appears to be a significant mental health issue for people with Epilepsy due to shared neurobiology and psychosocial factors nbsp; ...

Gene linked to epilepsy and autism decoded in new study - A genetic change or variant in a gene called SCN2A is a known cause of infantile seizures, autism spectrum disorder, and intellectual disability, as well as a wide range of other moderate-to-profound ...

Mum diagnosed with epilepsy after symptoms dismissed as panic attacks - A mum has been diagnosed with epilepsy after her symptoms were initially dismissed as panic attacks. Madeleine Dippnall, 29, was told by doctors that she was suffering from panic attacks caused by ...

Mum’s epilepsy misdiagnosed and dismissed as ‘mental health problem’ - After her panic attacks were dismissed as ‘ mental health problems,’ a young mum discovered that she wasn’t suffering from a mental illness: she had epilepsy.

Johns Hopkins epilepsy device spinout names new CEO - The company is raising $1.5 million as it seeks FDA approval for an application that turns an Apple Watch into a seizure detector.

Seizure dogs may reduce seizures for people with severe refractory epilepsy: Study - Netherlands: A recent study published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, has shed light on the effectiveness of seizure dogs for people with ...

Woman Who Suffers With Epilepsy To Climb Mount Kilimanjaro To Raise Awareness Of The Disease - Christy Howard, a Chattanooga woman who suffers with epilepsy, will begin her trek up Mount Kilimanjaro in July to raise awareness surrounding the disease and those who suffer from its effects.

Hidden Brain Region May Unlock New Epilepsy Treatment - A new study offers an explanation and suggests a more effective approach to treatment of epilepsy. They found a previously overlooked region of the hippocampus, the fasciola cinereum, appears to be ...

Recognizing when someone is having a seizure – how you can help during those first critical moments - Approximately 1 in 26 people develop epilepsy, a condition in which someone experiences recurring and unprovoked seizures. But experiencing a seizure does not always mean a person has epilepsy.

Brain Health Announces Integration of QEEG Brain Mapping and Neurofeedback in Mental Health Treatments - Leading mental health firm Brain Health has announced that several of its treatment approaches now include QEEG Brain Mapping and Neurofeedback technologies. Dr. Ketam Hamdan is the inspiration for ...

Neurodivergence In The 21st Century: How Technology Supports Children's Potential - Well-established and breakthrough treatments such as neurofeedback, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), augmented and virtual reality therapy and the digitization and gamification of cognitive ...

Health technology for you and your pet - Tech expert Jessica Naziri, from techsesh.co, has the latest gadgets designed to enhance both your well-being and that of your furry companions.

How Alphabeats designed brainwave training using neurofeedback and music to improve recovery - Alphabeats is using their neurofeedback technology to help top athletes increase focus, enhance their recovery and improve their sleep.

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: You can’t get there from here - At Capital District Neurofeedback, we use brain-based technologies and forward-focused therapies to help our clients live out of what is possible, not what is currently present and upsetting or ...

Association between pre-diagnostic serum uric acid levels in patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy and conversion rate to drug-resistant epilepsy within 5 years: A common data model analysis - CONCLUSIONS: Serum UA levels have the potential to serve as a biomarker for identifying patients at risk of DRE, indicating a potential avenue for novel therapeutic strategies aimed at preventing DRE conversion.

Optimal hippocampal targeting in responsive neurostimulation for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy - CONCLUSIONS: Dual unilateral hippocampal implantation increased RNS contact density in patients with unilateral MTLE, which contributed to improved outcomes, not by stimulating more of the hippocampus, but instead by being more likely to stimulate a latent subtarget in the anterior hippocampus. It remains to be explored whether a single electrode targeted selectively to this region would also r...

Human milk and breastfeeding during ketogenic diet therapy in infants with epilepsy: Clinical practice guideline - Ketogenic diet therapy (KDT) is a safe and effective treatment for epilepsy and glucose transporter type 1 (GLUT1) deficiency syndrome in infancy. Complete weaning from breastfeeding is not required to implement KDT; however, breastfeeding remains uncommon. Barriers include feasibility concerns and lack of referrals to expert centres. Therefore, practical strategies are needed to help mothers a...

Dose adjustment strategy of levetiracetam in pregnant patients with epilepsy: Case report and literature review - RATIONALE: Pregnant patients with epilepsy are prone to preterm delivery, stillbirth, or cesarean section, and their mortality rate is almost 10 times higher than that of normal pregnant women. The potential negative influences of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) on the fetus are weighed against the necessity for achieving optimal control of seizures. Treatment with AEDs during pregnancy is a major c...

Evaluating the Credibility and Reliability of Online Information on Cannabidiol (CBD) for Epilepsy Treatment in Poland - The interest in the potential therapeutic use of cannabis, especially cannabidiol (CBD), has increased significantly in recent years. On the Internet, users can find lots of articles devoted to its medical features such as reducing seizure activity in epilepsy. The aim of our work was to evaluate the information contained on the websites, including social media, in terms of the credibility and ...

Microglia Mitigate Neuronal Activation in a Zebrafish Model of Dravet Syndrome - It has been known for a long time that epileptic seizures provoke brain neuroinflammation involving the activation of microglial cells. However, the role of these cells in this disease context and the consequences of their inflammatory activation on subsequent neuron network activity remain poorly understood so far. To fill this gap of knowledge and gain a better understanding of the role of mi...

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.