16 July 2025
21 March 2025 For the first time Australian patients are being prescribed AI-informed epilepsy medication as part of a nationwide, multicentre randomised control trial led by neurologist Professor Patrick Kwan. Alfred Health is the lead site of PERSONAL, a trial where clinicians consult a newly developed AI model to assist in prescribing the most effectiveRead More…
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16 July 2025
8 July 2025 Three Cupertino High School students are attempting a daunting feat: creating and perfecting a device that can help people with epilepsy, a brain disorder that causes seizures and affects more than 60 million worldwide. Rising Cupertino High seniors Anika Mukherjee, Nikhil Krishnaswamy and Vishresh Deepak are cofounders of Neuropod, a device that recordsRead More…
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16 July 2025
9 July 2025 A 4-year-old shelter dog credited with recognizing a man’s seizures has been adopted, finding a forever home with Shannon Sweeney and her family. Sweeney adopted Sienna, a Lab and pit bull mix, into her home, where her oldest son also happens to have epilepsy, a condition marked by seizures. “She is extremely laid back, and she’s very,Read More…
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14 April 2025
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 the important roleRead More…
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14 February 2025
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 the important roleRead More…
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14 February 2025
22 January 2025 Researchers from the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University in Finland and the University of Wisconsin in the United States demonstrated that individuals who had childhood epilepsy have an increased accumulation of brain amyloid later in life, potentially predisposing them to late-onset brain amyloid disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. The accumulationRead More…
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14 February 2025
22 January 2025 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 could significantly reduce false positivesRead More…
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