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 ...

Generalized epilepsy has traditionally been considered a seizure of the "'whole brain.'" However, new research has challenged this longstanding idea, since carefully targeting specific brain areas ...

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 ...

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 surgery has been shown to be an effective treatment for patients with intractable epilepsy. The only randomized controlled trial conducted in this setting to date found a dramatic advantage ...

Surgery led to a reduction in premature mortality among adults with drug-resistant focal epilepsy beyond 15 years and gradually normalised their long-term survival to more closely resemble that of the ...

Epilepsy surgery is something that many people undergo after trying medication and other therapies that do not work. Since it is a neurosurgery (brain surgery), there is a lot of uncertainty and ...

-- New approval for VIMPAT® (lacosamide) CV in the U.S. as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures (PGTCS) in patients four years of age and older -- All three ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology company, today announced that 24-month data on generalized tonic-clonic (GTC) seizures in people with ...

Epilepsy can be a difficult condition to diagnose. Seizures do not always happen in a doctor's office. Fortunately, the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) enhances diagnosis accuracy by observing patients ...