Surgery. Good candidates for surgery are those who have intractable epilepsy and those with multiple auras, often of different types, such as odd smells, bright lights, and feelings of breezes, as ...

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 ...

The research is persuasive: When drugs don’t completely control epilepsy, surgery often can — and the sooner it’s tried, the better. Yet while children are going under the knife at younger ages, ...

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 ...

Washington - The research is persuasive: When drugs don't completely control epilepsy, surgery often can - and the sooner it's tried, the better. Yet while children are going under the knife at ...

A surgical treatment commonly used to reduce epileptic seizures in adults also is effective and safe for children, according to a new study. The study is one of the first to investigate responsive ...

Moving forward The CDC reports that one in 100 U.S. adults has active epilepsy, and studies suggest that one third of these are not receiving adequate treatment or care. 30 Although this recent report ...

A surgical treatment commonly used to reduce epileptic seizures in adults also is effective and safe for children, according to a Rutgers study. The study, published in the journal Neurosurgery, is ...