A multicenter cohort study explores how the timing of ASM withdrawal after epilepsy surgery may influence seizure relapse and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carrie Muh ’96, ’97, SM ’97, works in an office surrounded by letters from grateful parents. As the chief of pediatric neurosurgery and surgical director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Maria ...

A new advance from Carnegie Mellon University researchers could reshape how clinicians identify the brain regions responsible for drug-resistant epilepsy. Surgery can be a life-changing option for ...

The government is set to establish a permanent, sustainable clinical system for epilepsy surgery, a move that will reduce reliance on foreign medical missions and overseas referrals for complex brain ...

Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm Dr Andrew Wilner and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr Barbara Jobst. Dr Jobst is an epileptologist and professor of neurology at Dartmouth ...