A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found, in animal models, that they can "switch off" epileptic seizures. The findings, published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...
Dec 16, 2019
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Researchers studying six adults who had one of their brain hemispheres removed during childhood to reduce epileptic seizures found that the remaining half of the brain formed unusually strong connections between different ...
Nov 19, 2019
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A study by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators may help explain why even people benefiting from medications for their epilepsy often continue to experience bouts of difficulty thinking, perceiving and remembering ...
Oct 16, 2019
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Analysing 'rogue brainwaves' in people with epilepsy could help doctors better treat patients needing brain surgery.
Oct 2, 2019
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A cannabidiol gel has been shown to reduce epileptic seizures in children in a clinical trial conducted in New Zealand and Australia.
Oct 2, 2019
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In some forms of epilepsy, the function of certain "brake cells" in the brain is presumed to be disrupted. This may be one of the reasons why the electrical malfunction is able to spread from the point of origin across large ...
Oct 1, 2019
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What happens during an epileptic seizure? A recent study suggests that seizures occur after certain defense cells in the brain break down.
Aug 23, 2019
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Two weeks after Louisiana patients began receiving medical marijuana, the program is humming along without supply disruption and with thousands of people receiving the drug for medical use, regulatory officials and the head ...
Aug 19, 2019
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Pyramidal graphs resulting from statistical analyses of EEG recordings can improve our understanding of epileptic seizures.
Jul 23, 2019
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For people with epilepsy, it's not just the severity of seizures that's a problem: their unpredictability also takes a psychological toll.
Jul 19, 2019
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