Epilepsy News

Everything you should know about epilepsy - For weeks my 5-year-old son had been waking up in the middle of the night vomiting and acting confused, but after numerous doctor visits yielded no answers, I was frustrated. Then one night while I ...

Understanding Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy - Very good question. Yeah, you know, when we think about seizures and epilepsy, we kind of-- everybody can imagine that you can have a trauma, or you could drown from a seizure. You can be involved in ...

Family remembers Annabelle Ham, social media influencer who died from an epileptic seizure in Fairhope last July - Annabelle Ham tragically died after an epileptic seizure in July 2023. Now, her family is sharing her story to raise awareness on epilepsy and further her legacy.

What Is Epilepsy? Expert Shares How To Identify And Effective Ways To Manage It - But how does it occur? How to identify if it's an epilepsy seizure? We got in touch with Dr Aditya Gupta, Director of Neurosurgery and Cyberknife at Artemis Hospital Gurugram who shares how to ...

Brit widow fighting for life in coma after suffering seizure on tragic trip to Turkey to scatter late husband’s ashes - A BRIT widow is fighting for her life in Turkey after being put in an induced coma – and her family are desperate to get her home. Bereaved Cerys Rees, 34 went to Antalya, Turkey with the ...

Initiative to address global epilepsy challenges - The launch of the Centre for Global Epilepsy also marks a commitment to addressing global mind-brain health challenges and promoting equitable access to quality healthcare worldwide.

Initial ECT Seizure Length Tied to Depression Remission - In an adjusted model, patients who had an initial seizure duration of at least 30 seconds had a twofold higher odds of remission compared with patients with seizure duration of less than 20 seconds, ...

Epilepsy Research News - 2023 — For people with epilepsy, doing yoga may help reduce feelings of stigma about the disease along with reducing seizure frequency and anxiety, according to new ... New Drug Offers Relief ...

Sexual and Gender Minorities Twice as Likely to Report Epilepsy - Individuals who identified with a sexual or gender minority were more than twice as likely to report having epilepsy compared with the general population, survey data showed.

Brainerd author offers epilepsy support in Pequot Lakes - A round-up of upcoming entertainment events, such as concerts, plays, music in the park, author events in the Brainerd lakes area.

What Is Neurofeedback Therapy? - Eventually, she found biofeedback, which is a technique of gaining awareness and control of certain body functions – such as heart rate, muscle responses and breathing – in order to relieve pain or ...

Steve Aoki on How He Balances Health and a Quest for Longevity with Worldwide Partying - The globe-trotting DJ and producer is working hard to stay on top of the EDM world at 46. He shares his plan to win the longevity game ...

Mild COVID-19 can cause long-term cognitive losses, finds study - Memory loss and attention deficit are frequent complaints of people who have survived severe COVID-19, but these and other cognitive impairments have also been observed in mild cases more than 18 ...

Sponsored: What is Neurotherapy? - Cognicare Texas uses neurofeedback to help improve brain function. This process teaches the brain to increase its activity and improve its flexibility.

Even mild COVID can cause prolonged cognitive impairment - They are exploring non-invasive techniques like neurostimulation and neurofeedback to enhance brain function through neuromodulation, which stimulates synaptic connections. "We have only case studies ...

De novo depression following temporal lobe epilepsy surgery - Surgical removal of the mesial temporal lobe can effectively treat drug-resistant epilepsy but may lead to mood disorders. This fact is of particular interest in patients without a prior psychiatric history. The study investigates the relationship between Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE), mood disorders, and the functional connectivity of the Hippocampus (Hipp) and Nucleus Accumbens (NAcc). In this...

Network signatures define consciousness state during focal seizures - OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder affecting 1% of the global population. Loss of consciousness in focal impaired awareness seizures (FIASs) and focal-to-bilateral tonic-clonic seizures (FBTCSs) can be devastating, but the mechanisms are not well understood. Although ictal activity and interictal connectivity changes have been noted, the network states of focal aware seizures...

Grading objective diagnostic components in paroxysmal events: One-year follow-up at a tertiary epilepsy center - OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to develop a model and perform a preliminary internal validation study of the Scale for Objective Diagnostic Components of Paroxysmal Events (STAMP).

Case Report: Focal, generalized, or both: does generalized network involvement preclude successful epilepsy surgery? - We present two cases with focal seizures where scalp electroencephalography (EEG) had prominent features of a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE): Case 1: a 17-year-old male with complex motor seizures whose EEG demonstrated a slow spike-and-wave pattern and generalized paroxysmal fast activity (GPFA). Case 2: a 12-year-old male with startle-induced asymmetric tonic seizures whose ...

Three siblings with self-limited familial infantile epilepsy with PRRT2 mutation: A case series - We report three sisters with self-limited familial infantile epilepsy, caused by a mutation in proline-rich transmembrane protein2. Self-limited familial infantile epilepsy has been established as a distinct epileptic syndrome characterized by focal seizures in clusters of infantile-onset. The seizure types of our cases were focal with or without secondary generalization. The seizures manifeste...

Evolutionary transfer optimization-based approach for automated ictal pattern recognition using brain signals - The visual scrutinization process for detecting epileptic seizures (ictal patterns) is time-consuming and prone to manual errors, which can have serious consequences, including drug abuse and life-threatening situations. To address these challenges, expert systems for automated detection of ictal patterns have been developed, yet feature engineering remains problematic due to variability within...

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.