Late-onset epilepsy (LOE) may represent a distinctive neurodegenerative-linked epilepsy subtype, with new data showing that individuals who develop epilepsy after midlife have substantially greater ...
Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were tied to higher risks of new-onset neurologic conditions later in life. Women with eclampsia had a five-times higher risk of developing epilepsy. Migraine risk ...
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Medically reviewed by Diana Apetauerova, MD Key Takeaways Epilepsy is often linked to genetic factors, brain injuries, ...
The investigators, in the Department of Neurosurgery in the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, developed a novel way to identify brain activity that could be predictive of the onset of a ...
The CASTLE Online Sleep Intervention may help reduce sleep onset latency for children with epilepsy when paired with standard ...
SAN DIEGO — Certain musical elements within songs — especially when tied to emotional memories — may trigger a rare form of epilepsy known as musicogenic epilepsy, new research suggested The term ...
You can expect most epilepsy cases to improve with antiseizure drugs. Surgery is an option if medications do not work for your epilepsy. You may eat a ketogenic diet to help with treatment-resistant ...
Patients can spend anywhere from several days to several weeks in an epilepsy monitoring unit with electrodes protruding from holes drilled in their skulls. This is intracranial EEG, and it is now ...
Praxis Precision Medicines has scored another midphase win in epilepsy this year, with its sodium channel inhibitor shown to reduce seizures in children with two specific types of the neurological ...