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 can keep full visual perception—the ability to process and understand visual information—after brain surgery for severe epilepsy, according to a study funded by the National Eye Institute ...

When you hear the words “brain surgery,” it is absolutely normal to feel terrified. For a person living with epilepsy, the ...

A laser-based procedure for people with medication-resistant epilepsy may result in better memory function than standard surgery, while still providing comparable seizure control rates, doctors say.

A new study links the brain's glymphatic waste-clearance function to seizure freedom after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery, revealing divergent glymphatic-metabolic coupling patterns between ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...