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 ...

Ten years ago, a landmark clinical trial in Canada demonstrated the unequivocal effectiveness of brain surgeries for treating uncontrolled epilepsy, but since then the procedure has not been widely ...

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 ...

Epilepsy surgery is the standard of care for focal drug-resistant epilepsy, but it is underutilized. Knowledge gaps and attitudes toward epilepsy surgery are partly responsible, and a new study ...

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 ...

SEATTLE -- For patients with drug-refractory epilepsy who are eligible for surgical treatment, their outcomes end up better than continuing on medical therapy in most cases, two new studies suggested.

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 ...

THE CASE: A 45-year-old right-handed man was admitted to hospital for evaluation of seizures that had begun when he was 10 years old but were not responding to treatment. The events were characterized ...

Surgical treatment for epilepsy is being used more and more People who cannot control their epilepsy with medication should be referred sooner for surgery, suggests a study in The Lancet. The ...

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 ...

Antiepileptic drugs control seizures in 60%-70% of people with epilepsy. [1] The remaining 30%-40% resort to other therapies, such as the vagus nerve stimulator (VNS); responsive neurostimulation (RNS ...