Researchers have developed a new method for triggering and imaging seizures in epilepsy patients, offering physicians the ability to collect real-time data to tailor epilepsy surgery. In contrast to ...

Researchers have developed a new method for triggering and imaging seizures in epilepsy patients, offering physicians the ability to collect real-time data to tailor epilepsy surgery. In contrast to ...

An imaging scan called SPECT records brain activity during epileptic seizures. The scan pinpoints where seizures originate, and helps in the planning of surgery to remove the part of the brain ...

More than a decade after her original diagnosis, she suddenly had episodes of losing consciousness. Was this a different type of seizure? By Lisa Sanders, M.D. “I’m feeling a little stroke-y,” the ...

UAB Department of Neurosurgery Professor Kristen Riley, M.D., and Neurosurgery PGY6 Resident Adeel Ilyas, M.D., are among the authors of a recent paper published in NEJM Evidence titled, “Pro-Ictal ...

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 ...

What can be done to control unprovoked seizures in a 55-year-old woman with drug-resistant epilepsy who was admitted to the hospital? The patient's medical history indicated that she had been ...