Newswise — The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Comprehensive Epilepsy Center team recently performed its first thalamic responsive neurostimulation (RNS) procedure. This groundbreaking technology is ...

LEBANON – More than three-million people in the United States live with epilepsy. Of those individuals, about one in six cannot control their seizures with medications or surgery alone. Uncontrolled ...

A laser-based procedure for people with medication-resistant epilepsy may result in better memory function than standard surgery, while still providing comparable seizure control rates, doctors say.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Houston's Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center became the first VA facility to use an MRI-guided laser procedure to treat epilepsy ...

Recently, a neurotech company called Paradromics made headlines by successfully implanting its brain-computer interface (BCI) in a human for the first time. The procedure happened at the University of ...

A simple scoring system from researchers at Rutgers Health and other institutions may help doctors predict which patients will likely become seizure-free after minimally invasive epilepsy surgery.

More than ever before, people with epilepsy are living normal lives. The key is to get treatment, typically a medication, for seizures—the unpredictable disruptions in the brain's electrical system ...

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and the University of Campinas in Brazil, will use a $3.4 million NIH grant to develop a comprehensive risk calculator to determine which patients will ...

Epilepsy is the most common chronic brain disease, with nearly 3 million adults in the U.S. diagnosed. Epilepsy can be disruptive, dangerous and terrifying. But, there is a way for those with epilepsy ...

MILWAUKEE (WISN) — Epilepsy is the most common chronic brain disease, with nearly 3 million adults in the U.S. diagnosed. Epilepsy can be disruptive, dangerous and terrifying. But, there is a way for ...