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 ...

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 ...

A Scottish teenager with epilepsy underwent a groundbreaking surgery to remove a piece of his brain and is no longer having seizures for the first time in 13 years, according to his mother. Angus Bain ...

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 ...

Mar. 23 -- FRIDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- People with epilepsy who experience multiple types of auras may be good candidates for surgery because their seizures seem to arise from one area of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Structural lesions associated with epilepsy were better visualized on pTx than circularly polarized MRI in 57% of adult surgical candidates. HealthDay News — Parallel transmit (pTx) 7 Tesla (T) ...

Studies suggest natural language processing (NLP) is an effective tool in identifying candidates for epilepsy surgery. A review of 6 studies found natural language processing (NLP) showed ...

November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, and a Tulsa third grader is preparing for a major brain surgery that could change his life. His father, who is also a local neurosurgeon, spent time in ...