Scottish teenager Angus Bain, 17, was diagnosed with epilepsy at 4 and is facing life seizure-free after a groundbreaking surgery removed part of his brain. "I've never had such a long period not ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Kevin Driggars keeps an image of his 14-year-old son Michael’s brain on his cellphone. It is a reminder of his family’s decadelong struggle with the boy’s ...

A team of researchers from the University Medical Center Utrecht wanted to know what was going on in the brain that might help them better understand why some still images trigger seizures and ...

Just before little Indy Glover celebrated her fifth birthday in the summer of 2023, she had a seizure so severe she appeared ...

"Even perfectly healthy people may feel modest discomfort from the images that are most likely to trigger seizures in photosensitive epilepsy." Gamma oscillations in the brain can be measured on ...

Why some images trigger seizures. Cell Press. Journal Current Biology DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.076 ...

Dr. Christina Patterson, director of the epilepsy program at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, said a streamlined MEG scanner would make it easier to get clearer pictures of the brain ...

Patients with severe epilepsy are giving scientists the chance to see the human brain in action, a view they could never get with an MRI or other high-tech tools. None of this would be possible ...

A Gordon, Nebraska, man who has epilepsy has been free of seizures since since undergoing a procedure more than a year ago. Nebraskan benefits from less-invasive brain procedures for people with ...

In May 2013, they admitted her to a hospital epilepsy center, put electrodes on her scalp and began watching her brain activity. An epileptic seizure looks a bit like an electrical storm in the brain.

Four years ago, Amber Pearson had an implant put into her brain as part of her epilepsy treatment — and miraculously found it also helped to hinder compulsive thoughts.

Using equations based on machine learning and calculus to reveal patterns in brain activity, the models identify where seizures begin in the brain. And they do it in just minutes. Typically patients ...