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 new advance from Carnegie Mellon University researchers could reshape how clinicians identify the brain regions responsible for drug-resistant epilepsy. Surgery can be a life-changing option for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LEBANON – More than three-million people in the United States live with epilepsy. Of those individuals, about one in six cannot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently, a neurotech company called Paradromics made headlines by successfully implanting its brain-computer interface (BCI) in a human for the first time. The procedure happened at the University of ...

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 ...

Bariatric surgery for weight loss is associated with a significantly increased risk for epilepsy, new research suggests. Although the epidemiologic study didn't address the potential mechanisms ...

People who have had bariatric surgery may have an increased risk of developing epilepsy, according to a new study. People who have had bariatric surgery may have an increased risk of developing ...