Discover how ultra-early epilepsy surgeries transform the lives of children with drug-resistant seizures, preventing long-term brain damage.

Preoperative cognitive function is a central component of predicting cognitive outcomes after resective epilepsy surgery. Early consideration of and evaluation for epilepsy surgery is key to ...

Children with drug-resistant epilepsy who are Black or insured through Medicaid may be less likely than white and privately insured patients to receive surgical treatments that can end or minimize ...

For medication-resistant epileptics, surgery is often the only way to stop seizures. However, for those with frontal lobe epilepsy, sometimes surgery doesn’t ensure the seizures stop. A new study has ...

Studies suggest natural language processing (NLP) is an effective tool in identifying candidates for epilepsy surgery. A review of 6 studies found natural language processing (NLP) showed ...

Many families face the challenge of drug-resistant epilepsy, questioning the transition from medication to surgery.

A Scottish teenager with epilepsy underwent a groundbreaking surgery to remove a piece of his brain and is no longer having seizures for the first time in 13 years, according to his mother. Angus Bain ...

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 ...

For people living with epilepsy who have tried various epilepsy treatments to control their seizures with little success, there is another option. It’s a surgery called resection of an epileptic focus ...

Bariatric surgery increased the risk of epilepsy, a retrospective Canadian study showed. Over a minimum of 3 years follow-up, bariatric surgery patients had a 45% increased risk of developing epilepsy ...

People who have had bariatric surgery may have an increased risk of developing epilepsy, according to a study published in the September 28, 2022, online issue of Neurology ®, the medical journal of ...

Bariatric surgery is an umbrella term for any surgery that alters your digestive system — with the goal of reducing weight and improving a person's metabolic function. In general, this type of surgery ...