Epilepsy Research News
December 5, 2024
Top Headlines
Nov. 27, 2024 Children of mothers who took certain anti-seizure medications while pregnant do not have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 6, according to a long-running ...
Nov. 25, 2024 A groundbreaking method to profile gene activity in the living human brain has been developed. This innovative approach opens new avenues for understanding and treating neurological conditions like ...
Nov. 15, 2024 In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in ...
Oct. 1, 2024 Researchers have made a significant step towards enabling women with epilepsy safer access to a common and highly effective anti-seizure medication. Sodium Valproate or valproic acid is widely ...
Latest Headlines
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Nov. 26, 2024 Researchers have developed a new method called MoPEDE, which has the potential to improve epilepsy treatment. The method combines brain measurements with genetic analyses, offering deeper insights ...
Nov. 12, 2024 A new model for epilepsy care provides a streamlined, multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy, and combines modern digital tools, data sharing and peer ...
Nov. 12, 2024 A practical calculator predicts the risk of epilepsy after venous stroke. The aim is to improve care for those affected, which are predominantly young ...
Sep. 19, 2024 Researchers have developed a groundbreaking soft cortical device that could revolutionize the treatment of epilepsy and other neurological ...
Sep. 16, 2024 When surgeons perform brain surgery on people with brain tumors or epilepsy, they need to remove the tumor or abnormal tissue while preserving parts of the brain that control language and movement. A ...
Aug. 27, 2024 A research team evaluated the reliability of human experts in comparison to an automated algorithm in assessing the quality of intracranial ...
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 ...
May 22, 2024 Researcher leads a new clinical trial testing her flicker technology on patients with ...
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 ...
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 ...
Earlier Headlines
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 seizures. An experimental treatment may prevent ...
Jan. 4, 2024 In a study designed to better understand sudden, unexpected deaths in young children, which usually occur during sleep, researchers have identified brief seizures, accompanied by muscle convulsions, ...
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 straightforward design, these durable electrodes ...
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 development of new ...
July 19, 2023 Young children who were exposed to commonly-prescribed anti-seizure medications in utero do not have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes than children of women who do not take anti-seizure ...
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 ...
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- 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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- 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
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- 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
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- Breakthrough Tech Enables Seizure Localization in Minutes
- Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy Not Linked to Epilepsy in Children
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- People With Epilepsy Live Shorter Lives
- Newborn Cells in the Epileptic Brain Provide a Potential Target for Treatment
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- Emotion, Stress Cues in Social Media Posts Might Be Early Warnings in Epilepsy Deaths
- Team Identifies Compound With Potent Antiseizure Effects