Neurosurgeons face a deceptively simple problem every time they open a skull: the brain refuses to stay where the scan left ...

More than ever before, people with epilepsy are living normal lives. The key is to get treatment, typically a medication, for seizures—the unpredictable disruptions in the brain's electrical system ...

In the 58% of patients who became seizure-free in a randomized trial, [3] quality of life, employment status and school attendance improved. There were no deaths, although 1 patient in the control ...

Children with drug-resistant epilepsy who are Black or insured through Medicaid may be less likely than white and privately insured patients to receive surgical treatments that can end or minimize ...

More than three million people in the U.S. suffer from epilepsy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About one-third of people with epilepsy don't respond to medications used ...

Surgery led to a reduction in premature mortality among adults with drug-resistant focal epilepsy beyond 15 years and gradually normalised their long-term survival to more closely resemble that of the ...

Epilepsy surgery has been shown to be an effective treatment for patients with intractable epilepsy. The only randomized controlled trial conducted in this setting to date found a dramatic advantage ...

Epilepsy surgery is the standard of care for focal drug-resistant epilepsy, but it is underutilized. Knowledge gaps and attitudes toward epilepsy surgery are partly responsible, and a new study ...

Research shows that specialized brain surgery for epilepsy control is performed for only a small fraction of the people who could benefit. Even when surgery is eventually performed, it has often been ...

Doctors said she was having panic attacks, but Mandi is a keen observer, and the episodes reminded her of the epileptic seizures she had as a child. "It feels as though something is twisting around in ...

Bariatric surgery increased the risk of epilepsy, a retrospective Canadian study showed. Over a minimum of 3 years follow-up, bariatric surgery patients had a 45% increased risk of developing epilepsy ...