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 ...

Three and a half million Americans have epilepsy - a condition where abnormal activity in the brain causes seizures - periods of time where a person loses awareness. When medications don't work to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery released a position statement supporting the ...

The NHS is rolling out a new laser treatment for epilepsy that offers a less invasive alternative to conventional neurosurgery. The technique, MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Retrospective chart review included 29 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy who underwent LITT. Better 1-year ...

Some people with tough-to-treat epilepsy might benefit if doctors target a brain region newly linked to the disorder, a new study suggests. Seizures declined by 83% after a patient underwent surgery ...

Investigators found that surgical intervention for epilepsy improves social functioning and increases the likelihood a patient will be free of seizures. Surgical treatment for epilepsy leads to ...

Around half of patients remain seizure free 10 years after undergoing surgery for epilepsy. However, there is scope for further improvement in presurgical assessment and surgical treatment of people ...

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 ...

This is the question families ask after years of seizures, hospital visits, missed school days, and job instability. Parents ask this for children who cannot attend classes regularly. Spouses ask this ...