{"id":680,"date":"2018-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/14\/stress-reduction-may-help-reduce-epileptic-seizures\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T17:10:01","slug":"stress-reduction-may-help-reduce-epileptic-seizures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/14\/stress-reduction-may-help-reduce-epileptic-seizures\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress Reduction May Help Reduce Epileptic Seizures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Both focused attention and progressive muscle relaxation techniques cut seizures<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Feb. 14, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Both focused attention and progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) result in reductions in seizure frequency in patients with epilepsy, according to a study published online Feb. 14 in <i>Neurology<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Sheryl R. Haut, M.D., from the Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y., and colleagues randomized 66 adults with medication-resistant focal epilepsy to 12 weeks of either PMR with diaphragmatic breathing or control focused-attention activity with extremity movements.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that seizure frequency was reduced from baseline in both treatment groups (PMR: 29 percent; P < 0.05; focused attention: 25 percent; P < 0.05). There was no difference between the two interventions in seizure reduction (P = 0.38), although PMR was associated with greater stress reduction compared to focused attention (P < 0.05). Daily stress was not found to predict seizures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These findings highlight the need for larger, individually targeted behavioral therapy trials to control seizures and improve quality of life in patients with epilepsy,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/n.neurology.org\/content\/early\/2018\/02\/14\/WNL.0000000000005109\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both focused attention and progressive muscle relaxation techniques cut seizures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}