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 ...

Study finds early surgery can cure epilepsy in children. March 12, 2013— -- Tom Parrent was home alone with his son 3-year-old Sam -- better known as "Spike" -- when after lunch the boy told his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surgery led to a reduction in premature mortality among adults with drug-resistant focal epilepsy beyond 15 years and gradually normalised their long-term survival to more closely resemble that of the ...

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 ...