Epilepsy News
June 15, 2024
Top Headlines
May 29, 2024 While older drugs for epilepsy, taken while pregnant, have been shown in previous research to affect the creative thinking of children, a new study finds no effects on creativity for children born to those taking newer epilepsy ...
May 22, 2024 Researchers have found that a specific pattern of brain activity, known as 'sharp-wave ripples,' is associated with thoughts that wander from the present situation. This activity begins in the hippocampus, a crucial brain region for memory formation ...
May 22, 2024 Researcher leads a new clinical trial testing her flicker technology on patients with ...
Apr. 18, 2024 A sensitive perception of the environment is crucial for guiding our behavior. However, an overly sensitive response of the brain's neural circuits to stimuli can lead to neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy. Researchers now report how ...
Latest Headlines
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Apr. 19, 2024 When epileptic patients suffer seizures, their brain is undergoing repetitive and excessive neuronal firing. But what triggers this has stumped scientists for years. Now, researchers have used ...
Mar. 22, 2024 Only a very small percentage of neurons show changes after an epileptic seizure in mice, but these alterations can be permanent and trigger future ...
Jan. 4, 2024 In a study designed to better understand sudden, unexpected deaths in young children, which usually occur during sleep, researchers have identified ...
Dec. 11, 2023 Researchers have identified a potential treatment target for a genetic type of epilepsy. ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Slow waves that usually only occur in the brain during sleep are also present during wakefulness in people with epilepsy and may protect against increased brain excitability associated with the ...
Nov. 8, 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 ...
Oct. 9, 2023 In cases where standard therapies fail, a medication called XEN1101 reduces seizure frequency by more than 50% in some patients and sometimes eliminates them altogether, a new study shows. Unlike ...
Sep. 14, 2023 Flexible thin-film electrodes placed directly on brain tissue show promise for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. Thanks to an innovative yet ...
Aug. 31, 2023 The largest genetic study of its kind has discovered specific changes in our DNA that increase the risk of developing epilepsy and may inform the ...
July 19, 2023 Young children who were exposed to commonly-prescribed anti-seizure medications in utero do not have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes than children ...
Earlier Headlines
Mar. 6, 2023 Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music. Reports about alleged symptom-alleviating effects of listening to Mozart's ...
Mar. 6, 2023 A research team proposes an innovative sequential narrow-field deep brain stimulation procedure to treat intractable ...
Mar. 1, 2023 Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from ...
Jan. 12, 2023 An international consortium has identified at least some of the genetic drivers of a mysterious form of pediatric ...
Jan. 10, 2023 Imagine slipping in and out of consciousness hundreds of times per day, staying awake the whole time but having no sense of awareness during these lapses. In children with absence epilepsy, these ...
Jan. 4, 2023 Following a modified Atkins diet high in fat and low in carbohydrates plus taking medication may reduce seizures in people with tough-to-treat epilepsy, according to a new ...
Nov. 30, 2022 Researchers have discovered a specific genetic variant in SCN1A, the most common genetic epilepsy, that leads to an earlier onset of epilepsy, with clinical features distinct from other epilepsies. ...
Nov. 29, 2022 Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that ...
Nov. 28, 2022 Researchers have taken a key step toward improving the lives of patients with epilepsy by developing a sensor system for quickly testing their saliva to see if they have the correct level of ...
Nov. 23, 2022 Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is one of the most common types of epilepsy worldwide. Although symptomatic medications are available, one-third of TLE patients remain unresponsive to current treatment, ...
Nov. 16, 2022 People who have a COVID-19 infection are more likely to develop seizures or epilepsy within the next six months than people who have an influenza infection, according to a new ...
Nov. 16, 2022 Children with a severe form of epilepsy should be vaccinated against the flu due to the high risk of seizures being triggered by an influenza infection, according to a new ...
Nov. 3, 2022 Researchers have provided the first demonstration of a progressive increase in epileptic spasms along with learning and memory deficits in an animal model of this ...
Nov. 3, 2022 A new treatment for neurological and psychiatric diseases, that works by reducing the excitability of overactive brain cells, has been ...
Sep. 29, 2022 People who have had bariatric surgery may have an increased risk of developing epilepsy, according to a new ...
Aug. 12, 2022 An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can detect subtle brain abnormalities which cause epileptic seizures has been ...
June 14, 2022 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 ...
May 12, 2022 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 ...
May 12, 2022 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 ...
May 11, 2022 A new study associates some types of shunts used after epilepsy surgery with brains shifting toward the side of the ...
Monday, March 6, 2023
- The Mozart Effect Myth: Listening to Music Does Not Help Against Epilepsy
- Novel Deep Brain Simulation Approach for Treating Drug-Refractory Epilepsy
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022
- Risk of Seizures Is Higher After COVID-19 Than After Influenza, Study Finds
- Children With Severe Form of Epilepsy Should Receive Flu Vaccine Due to High Seizure Risk After Influenza Infection, Study Finds
Thursday, November 3, 2022
- An Animal Model of West Syndrome Exhibits a Progressive Increase in Epileptic Spasms and Learning and Memory Deficits
- Gene Therapy Targeting Overactive Brain Cells Could Treat Neurological Disorders
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Friday, August 12, 2022
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Thursday, May 12, 2022
- Breakthrough Tech Enables Seizure Localization in Minutes
- Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy Not Linked to Epilepsy in Children
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
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Thursday, April 14, 2022
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
- People With Epilepsy Live Shorter Lives
- Newborn Cells in the Epileptic Brain Provide a Potential Target for Treatment
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
- Emotion, Stress Cues in Social Media Posts Might Be Early Warnings in Epilepsy Deaths
- Team Identifies Compound With Potent Antiseizure Effects
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
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Friday, July 23, 2021
- Brain-Repair Discovery Could Lead to New Epilepsy Treatments
- New Dietary Treatment for Epilepsy Well Tolerated and Reduced Seizures, Study Finds