Many families face the challenge of drug-resistant epilepsy, questioning the transition from medication to surgery.

Preoperative cognitive function is a central component of predicting cognitive outcomes after resective epilepsy surgery. Early consideration of and evaluation for epilepsy surgery is key to ...

Many patients suffer from epilepsy that cannot be controlled by current medications. Surgical removal of epileptogenic brain regions is effective in only about half of cases, and not all patients are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the powers that be at King’s College Hospital told neurosurgeon Charles Polkey that it had decided to name a ward after him he was initially reluctant to accept the honour. He only relented after ...

A recent effort, known as Omni-iEEG, brings together pre-surgical brain recordings from eight epilepsy centers, covering 302 patients and 178 hours of data. The dataset aligns clinical metadata under ...

"They did a brain scan but said that nothing was wrong, and they told me that it's likely never to happen again," Isabella ...

Bariatric surgery increased the risk of epilepsy, a retrospective Canadian study showed. Over a minimum of 3 years follow-up, bariatric surgery patients had a 45% increased risk of developing epilepsy ...

People who have had bariatric surgery may have an increased risk of developing epilepsy, according to a study published in the September 28, 2022, online issue of Neurology ®, the medical journal of ...