The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new research from Mayo Clinic. The study, published in the Journal of ...

Medication has long been the cornerstone of treatment for people with epilepsy, but it doesn't stop seizures for everyone and may come with significant side effects. New options in use or under ...

For families of children with severe epilepsy, controlling seizures is often just the beginning of their challenges. Even in cases where powerful medications can reduce seizures, many children ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

Epilepsy is best known for seizures, but many people with the condition also experience much more frequent and subtler disruptions. These brief bursts of abnormal brain activity, called interictal ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The parts of ...

People in dangerous jobs don’t usually sleep well. New research is investigating if their susceptibility to concussions and poor sleep could put them at greater risk of developing epilepsy. The ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The new ...

A first seizure is a scary and disorienting medical event. Convulsions, losing control of the body or limbs, talking incoherently, intense, unusual feelings, or having the mind go blank right in the ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new research from Mayo Clinic. The study, published in the ...