A new technique has enabled ultra-powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners to identify tiny differences in patients' brains that cause treatment-resistant epilepsy. In the first study to use this approach, it has ...
Mar 20, 2025
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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.
Mar 19, 2025
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Scientists have developed an AI-powered tool that detects 64% of brain abnormalities linked to epilepsy that human radiologists miss.
Feb 24, 2025
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In the United States, nearly three million adults 18 years and older reported having active epilepsy during 2021 and 2022. SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy), however, is rare, occurring in one in 1,000 people and ...
Feb 3, 2025
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Recent research led by UTHealth Houston scientists has uncovered two genes associated with variants linked to epilepsy, which showed specific traits that make them promising diagnostic biomarkers.
Jan 6, 2025
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A new method to profile gene activity in the living human brain has been developed by researchers at FutureNeuro, the Research Ireland Center for Translational Brain Science and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, ...
Nov 25, 2024
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Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) are working on a therapy that holds potential in treating patients with epilepsy, a neurological disorder defined by recurring ...
Oct 9, 2024
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The largest and most diverse study to date of epilepsy's genetic factors has revealed new potential targets for treatment, both shared by and unique to different subtypes of epilepsy. The findings point to factors involved ...
Oct 3, 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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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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