Research has shown early diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy disorders can improve outcomes. The question of when to ...

Epilepsy was viewed for a long time as a disorder of sudden electrical disruption, but we now know the story is more complex ...

Jon Kleen, MD, PhD, UC San Francisco neurologist, epileptologist and neuroscientist, has been named the 2023 Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award recipient by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). He is ...

Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from ...

“Dr. Faught was and continues to be a nationally and internationally recognized epilepsy research leader and a role model for many young epileptologists – it seems not a long time ago I was one of ...

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineer Sri Sarma is developing new technologies to pinpoint the exact origin of seizures in the brain—life-changing work for the roughly 21 million epilepsy patients ...

The National Institutes of Health awarded a group of Garden State and fellow researchers a $2.8 million grant to improve implantable devices for patients with epilepsy. RWJBarnabas Health announced ...

The largest genetic study of its kind, coordinated by the International League Against Epilepsy, including scientists from FutureNeuro at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, has ...

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 ...

Research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests how a newly developed gene therapy can treat Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, and potentially prolong survival for ...

A recent study at the University of Helsinki reveals that dogs with epilepsy exhibit distinct alterations in trace elements and heavy metal levels in their blood and fur compared with healthy ...