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 new technique has enabled ultra-powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners to identify tiny differences in patients' brains that cause treatment-resistant epilepsy. In the first study to use ...

In severe epilepsies, surgical intervention is often the only remedy - usually with great success. While neuropsychological performance can recover in the long term after successful surgery, on rare ...

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 ...

Bariatric surgery is an umbrella term for any surgery that alters your digestive system — with the goal of reducing weight and improving a person's metabolic function. In general, this type of surgery ...

More than 50 million people worldwide live with epilepsy, with approximately half of them being children. For about one-third of these patients, medications do not control their seizures, leaving ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Frazier doesn’t waste time. A title card flashes over footage of him opening a garage door: “The Belly Is In the Brain.” It immediately cuts to Frazier, now seated and centered in the frame. “For ...