Flexible thin-film electrodes placed directly on brain tissue show promise for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy, as demonstrated recently by scientists at Tokyo Tech. Thanks to an innovative yet straightforward design, these durable electrodes accurately match the mechanical properties of brain tissue, leading to better performance during electrocorticography recordings and targeted neural stimulation. Measuring […]
September 25, 2023 | EEG, Epilepsy, Neurology, Prevention, Research, Seizures, Technology
Researchers in Ireland have announced a technology breakthrough that will help people with drug-resistant epilepsy. The team at IPIC, the SFI Research Centre for Photonics at the Tyndall National Institute at UCC in Cork, has partnered with Belgium-based preclinical medical device company, Synergia Medical, to develop new technology that could significantly reduce seizures for people […]
September 11, 2023 | Epilepsy, Neurology, Prevention, Research, Technology
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes recurrent seizures and can significantly impact an individual’s quality of life. Anticonvulsant medications don’t control seizures well for about one-third of patients with epilepsy. For some of these patients, deep brain stimulation, or DBS, is a promising therapy. DBS involves implanting electrodes, or leads, in specific regions of the […]
August 24, 2023 | EEG, Epilepsy, Medicine, Neurology, Prevention, Seizures, Technology, Treatment
As a large population of patients with epilepsy ages, risk of hyponatremia has become an important clinical concern, in which monitoring of serum sodium levels when receiving antiseizure medications or antipsychotics (ASMs) may help identify and minimize the risk of hyponatremia in patients with epilepsy. “Although hyponatremia is a frequent problem associated with epilepsy, to our knowledge, […]
August 21, 2023 | Epilepsy, Human Interest Epilepsy, Neurology, Prevention, Seizures
The new experimental cell therapy is part of a national clinical trial aimed at eliminating seizures “This first-in-human clinical trial represents a paradigm shift in the way we treat this disease process, shifting from procedures that destroy bad tissue to procedures that repair the bad tissue. Our hope is that this procedure has such a […]
August 02, 2023 | Childhood Epilepsy, EEG, Epilepsy, Epilepsy in children, Epilepsy in seniors, Epilepsy in women, Epilepsy Syndromes, Human Interest Epilepsy, Medicine, Neurology, Prevention, Stress and Epilepsy
More dopaminergic neurons, better motor function seen in treated animals Lacosamide, a medication approved to treat epilepsy, showed a potential to be neuroprotective in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease, a study reports. Treatment with lacosamide significantly prevented the loss of dopamine-producing neurons that marks Parkinson’s, boosted dopamine production in key areas of the brain, and […]
July 28, 2023 | Epilepsy, Medicine, Neurology, Prevention, Research, Technology
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