Many patients suffer from epilepsy that cannot be controlled by current medications. Surgical removal of epileptogenic brain regions is effective in only about half of cases, and not all patients are ...

Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, which accounts for about 80% of all temporal lobe seizures, involves seizures starting in or near a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which controls memory and ...

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of focal epilepsy, affecting a significant proportion of patients who develop drug-resistant epilepsy. Surgical interventions, particularly ...

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 ...

In a retrospective cohort, a clinical heuristic composed of eight binary variables helped identify which patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) were best suited for stereotactic laser ...

“Much like tuning a high-precision radar to detect faint signals, SEEG enables clinicians to record subtle electrical signatures of seizures directly from deep brain structures,” says Dr. Jiajie Mo, ...

Despite trying antidepressants and CBT, the “panic” episodes only worsened, especially in the three years before the test.

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 ...