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 ...

For medication-resistant epileptics, surgery is often the only way to stop seizures. However, for those with frontal lobe epilepsy, sometimes surgery doesn’t ensure the seizures stop. A new study has ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Whether brain surgery is likely to improve or worsen memory in a patient with epilepsy can be predicted before the operation is performed, according to findings in the ...

For people living with epilepsy who have tried various epilepsy treatments to control their seizures with little success, there is another option. It’s a surgery called resection of an epileptic focus ...

MILWAUKEE (WISN) — Epilepsy is the most common chronic brain disease, with nearly 3 million adults in the U.S. diagnosed. Epilepsy can be disruptive, dangerous and terrifying. But, there is a way for ...

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 ...

Investigators found that surgical intervention for epilepsy improves social functioning and increases the likelihood a patient will be free of seizures. Surgical treatment for epilepsy leads to ...

When Isaac Klapper was 10 years old, he started having regular, daily episodes that caused his head to twitch and his eyes to turn to the side. His pediatrician recommended a neurologist, who ...

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Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.