Patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy often cycle through multiple medications as they seek relief from the seizures that disrupt their lives. Yet in many cases, these drugs offer little benefit, ...

Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

Idiopathic epilepsy (also termed primary generalized epilepsy) occurs in people possessing no evident abnormalities in the structural architecture of the brain and is presumptively genetic in its ...

Late-onset epilepsy (LOE) may represent a distinctive neurodegenerative-linked epilepsy subtype, with new data showing that individuals who develop epilepsy after midlife have substantially greater ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting 3.4 million Americans or 1 in 26 over a lifetime. The hallmark of epilepsy is seizures caused by abnormal bursts of electrical ...

Lisa Smith’s 14-year-old daughter, Haley, had run out of options. She was having roughly two dozen seizures a day and had tried “17 or 18” different pharmaceutical regimens, different diets, and an ...

The unpredictable, debilitating nature of a seizure can be frightening, for both the person experiencing it and anyone watching nearby. In that moment, control often slips away as muscles stiffen, ...

The DETECT study is the first randomised controlled trial comparing Minder System implants to standard care monitoring.

Epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease are bidirectionally related. Epilepsy is often complicated by progressive cognitive impairments, and late-onset epilepsy (onset generally after 55–65 years of age) is ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — On Saturday, the Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania held a walk raising awareness for epilepsy in Luzerne County. The event is their largest annual fundraiser. Dozens of ...

COAL VALLEY, Ill. — November is Epilepsy Awareness Month, and the Epilepsy Advocacy Network is inviting the Quad Cities area community to join in the fun while supporting an important cause. Epilepsy ...