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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The timing of antiseizure medication (ASM) withdrawal following resective epilepsy surgery was associated with early seizure relapse risk but not long-term seizure outcomes, a new multicenter study ...

A group of specialist doctors from across the public and private sectors went above and beyond to provide care for epilepsy ...

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 ...

Researchers from Inserm and Grenoble Alpes University (UGA) have discovered a new therapeutic avenue for combating ...

DelveInsight forecasts a rise in the drug-resistant epilepsy market from 2025 to 2034, driven by higher prevalence, improved diagnosis, treatment advances, aging demographics, increased awareness, and ...

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 ...