Epilepsy News

New guideline issued for antiseizure medication use in pregnant epilepsy patients - A new guideline has been issued to help neurologists and other clinicians determine the best antiseizure medications for people with epilepsy who may become pregnant.

Woman feels intense side effects with anti-seizure medications - First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Guideline issued for people with epilepsy who may become pregnant - A new guideline has been issued to help neurologists and other clinicians determine the best antiseizure medications for people with epilepsy who may become pregnant.

Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital opens epilepsy monitoring unit - The area allows clinicians to constantly monitor patients' brain waves and enhances their ability to treat seizures.

ERs Often Missing Epilepsy in Kids With 'Non-Motor' Seizures - Two-thirds of kids who suffer a subtle type of epileptic seizure go undiagnosed when they seek emergency room treatment, ...

Trevena Reports Progress in Pain and Epilepsy Treatment Development, Amid Financial Adjustments - Trevena Inc. (Nasdaq: TRVN), a biopharmaceutical company, spotlighted its first-quarter achievements and financial standing, underscoring advancements in its novel treatment for chronic pain and ...

Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge adds epilepsy monitoring unit - Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge opened a six-room Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in late March. Administrators say it’s the first unit of its kind in the Advocate healthcare ...

New video for sharing - 'Epilepsy - it's more than just seizures' - National Epilepsy Week runs from 20-26 May 2024 and we will be launching our brand new “Epilepsy – it’s more than just seizures.” ...

I had a seizure minutes before my final exams at uni - Ellie Armitage's future was looking bright and she was all set to move to London – until she suffered a seizure just before her final exam at uni.

Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital launches new service to treat epilepsy - Patients with advanced seizure disorders used to be transferred to other facilities, but now they can receive care directly at South Nassau in Oceanside.

Neurofeedback of Cypress provides alternative approach to mental health care - Dawn-Petrice Youngs, clinical director and lead neurotherapist at Neurofeedback of Cypress, said as someone who’s struggled with anxiety, she found her calling as a mental health care provider during ...

This Neuroscience-Backed Brain Training System Harnesses Neurofeedback to Help Reduce Stress & Improve Focus - If you told me even a year ago that brain mapping and neurofeedback techniques could be performed at home for under $500, I wouldn’t have believed you. And while I’m still skeptical of any ...

A Better Brain Neurotherapy Center - Connecticut’s Morning Buzz Host Natasha Lubczenko recently met with Dr. Jason Richards, Founder and Owner of A Better Brain Neurotherapy Center, to delve into the ...

Neurofeedback for the Treatment of Children and Adolescents With ADHD - Background: A randomized and controlled clinical study was performed to evaluate the use of neurofeedback (NF) to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ...

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Molecular Insights of Drug Resistance in Epilepsy: Multi-omics Unveil - Epilepsy is a devastating neurological disorder mainly associated with impaired synchronic discharge that leads to sensory, motor, and psychomotor impairments. Till now, about 30 anti-seizure medications (ASMs) have been approved for the management of epilepsy, yet one-third of individuals still have uncontrollable epilepsy and develop resistance. Drug resistance epilepsy (DRE) is defined as th...

Neurocognition in Pediatric Temporal Lobe Tumor-Related Epilepsy - Tumor-related epilepsy is a common and understudied neurological comorbidity among pediatric temporal lobe tumor patients that poses risk for neurocognitive impairment (NCI). Forty-one youth with either TLT+ (n = 23) or nonneoplastic temporal lobe epilepsy (n = 18) ages 6-20 years completed routine neuropsychological evaluations. Rates of NCI were similar across groups; however, NCI was more co...

Combining EEG Features and Convolutional Autoencoder for Neonatal Seizure Detection - Neonatal epilepsy is a common emergency phenomenon in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), which requires timely attention, early identification, and treatment. Traditional detection methods mostly use supervised learning with enormous labeled data. Hence, this study offers a semi-supervised hybrid architecture for detecting seizures, which combines the extracted electroencephalogram (EEG) fe...

Cellular resolution contributions to ictal population signals - OBJECTIVE: The increased amplitude of ictal activity is a common feature of epileptic seizures, but the determinants of this amplitude have not been identified. Clinically, ictal amplitudes are measured electrographically (using, e.g., electroencephalography, electrocorticography, and depth electrodes), but these methods do not enable the assessment of the activity of individual neurons. Popula...

Epilepsy Research in the Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague - Starting from simple clinical statistics, the spectrum of methods used in epilepsy research in the Institute of Physiology of the Czechoslovak (now Czech) Academy of Sciences progressively increased. Professor Servít used electrophysiological methods for study of brain activity in lower vertebrates, neuropathology was focused on electronmicroscopic study of cortical epileptic focus and ion-sens...

Altered Hippocampal Activation in Seizure-Prone CACNA2D2 Knock-out Mice - The voltage-gated calcium channel subunit α2δ-2 controls calcium-dependent signaling in neurons, and loss of this subunit causes epilepsy in both mice and humans. To determine whether mice without α2δ-2 demonstrate hippocampal activation or histopathological changes associated with seizure activity, we measured expression of the activity-dependent gene c-fos and various histopathological correl...

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.