Tag: <span>epilepsy</span>

by Lancet Age-standardized years lived with disability and prevalence of idiopathic epilepsy per 100,000 people, both sexes, 2021. Credit: The Lancet Public Health (2025). DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00302-5 Epilepsy is one of the most common serious brain conditions: nearly 52 million people were living with epilepsy in 2021, according to a new study from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries,...

by King’s College London Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have developed an AI-powered tool that detects 64% of brain abnormalities linked to epilepsy that human radiologists miss. MELD Graph is an AI tool that could drastically change the care for 30,000 patients in the UK and 4 million worldwide with one cause of epilepsy, researchers say....

by Miriam Fauzia Graphical abstract. Credit: Brain Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae444 In the United States, nearly three million adults 18 years and older reported having active epilepsy during 2021 and 2022. SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy), however, is rare, occurring in one in 1,000 people and resulting in an estimated 3,000 deaths per year. Its rarity...

Peer-Reviewed Publication RCSI FacebookXLinkedInWeChatBlueskyMessageWhatsAppEmail Monday 27 January, 2025: A new international study has unveiled critical insights in understanding post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), a condition that can develop following traumatic brain injury. Led by researchers at FutureNeuro, the Research Ireland Centre for Translational Brain Science and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and published in Theranostics, the study highlights...

by Roberto Molar Candanosa, Johns Hopkins University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Doctors could soon reduce epilepsy misdiagnoses by up to 70% using a new tool that turns routine electroencephalogram, or EEG, tests that appear normal into highly accurate epilepsy predictors, a Johns Hopkins University study has found. By uncovering hidden epilepsy signatures in seemingly normal EEGs, the tool...

by Laura Frnka-Davis, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston In silico sequence- and structure-based analysis of variants in candidate genes. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54911-w Recent research led by UTHealth Houston scientists has uncovered two genes associated with variants linked to epilepsy, which showed specific traits that make them promising diagnostic biomarkers. The study is published in Nature...

Pauline Anderson December 17, 2024 287 LOS ANGELES — Newer glucose-lowering drugs reduce the risk for late-onset seizures and epilepsy by 24%, with glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) cutting the risk by 33%, according to a new meta-analysis. These results are “amazing” considering there are currently no drugs that actually prevent epilepsy, lead...

by Dennis Thompson Some people develop epilepsy after surviving a stroke, as the injury they’ve sustained causes scarring and disorganized electrical activity in their brains. But one type of blood pressure medication seems to help stroke survivors avoid post-stroke epilepsy (PSE), according to a first-of-its-kind study presented Friday at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy...

by Stacy Pigott, University of Arizona Credit: CC0 Public Domain Substance use disorders are notoriously difficult to treat, as it is challenging to intervene in a drugs’ effect on the brain’s reward pathway without interfering with the pathway’s normal function. In a University of Arizona Health Sciences study, researchers identified a drug that reduced the desire...