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 ...

More than three million people in the U.S. suffer from epilepsy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About one-third of people with epilepsy don't respond to medications used ...

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 the more than 15 million epilepsy patients around the world whose disease is not controlled by medication, the only remaining option is removal of the parts of the brain where seizures originate.

In the 58% of patients who became seizure-free in a randomized trial, [3] quality of life, employment status and school attendance improved. There were no deaths, although 1 patient in the control ...

"It was no way to live," she said. Loyola epileptologist Jorge Asconapé, MD, recommended surgery to remove scar tissue in her brain that was triggering the seizures. Neurosurgeon Douglas Anderson, MD, ...

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 study published in the September 28, 2022, online issue of Neurology ®, the medical journal of ...