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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. About three million people in the United States have epilepsy, including about a million who can't rely on medication to control ...

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 ...