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 ...

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 ...

A Chester County teenager is getting ready to go back to school after recovering from a special kind of brain surgery.

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 ...

Hartford HealthCare’s Ayer Neuroscience Institute is celebrating a major milestone: its 100th epilepsy surgery. For many people living with epilepsy, these procedures can be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LEBANON – More than three-million people in the United States live with epilepsy. Of those individuals, about one in six cannot ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rare epilepsy families will have a dedicated home at the largest gathering of epilepsy physicians and patients in the world, with expanded access to specialists and to Ari, Citizen Health’s AI ...

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 ...

Bariatric surgery for weight loss is associated with a significantly increased risk for epilepsy, new research suggests. Although the epidemiologic study didn't address the potential mechanisms ...