Heat waves can worsen abnormal excitability of the brain in people with epilepsy, finds a new small-scale patient study by clinical scientists at UCL.
Sep 10, 2024
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Neurosurgery for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy requires locating the precise brain areas that are generating the seizures. Typically, patients undergo seven to 10 days of invasive intracranial EEG monitoring, with ...
Aug 27, 2024
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Women with epilepsy are four times more likely to die during pregnancy and their babies are 50% more likely to suffer illness or death. These are the findings of a major new study led by Karolinska Institutet and published ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Diagnosing the genetic cause of a disease can aid in finding therapies and directing treatment, but often these diagnoses occur long after the disease has impacted a patient's life. In a new study, researchers from Children's ...
Jul 31, 2024
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Sexual and gender minorities (SGM)—individuals who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender, non-binary, or gender-diverse—are twice as likely to report active epilepsy compared to non-SGM individuals, based ...
Jul 22, 2024
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A team of epilepsy specialists at UC San Francisco has developed a method to predict 24-hour seizure risk. The discovery, which may be scalable to large numbers of patients, could help to improve the quality of life for the ...
Jul 18, 2024
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Socioeconomic deprivation increases the risk for sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and in some age groups, it may also increase the risk for epilepsy after a TBI, according to a research letter published in the July ...
Jul 16, 2024
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Changes in climate are possible trigger factors for seizure-related hospitalizations in patients with epilepsy, according to a study published online June 11 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Jul 15, 2024
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A teenager who is the first patient to take part in a UCL-sponsored clinical trial to use deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat epilepsy has seen his daytime seizures reduce by 80%.
Jun 24, 2024
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A class of drugs already on the market to lower blood pressure appears to reduce adults' risk of developing epilepsy, Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues have discovered. The finding comes out of an analysis ...
Jun 18, 2024
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