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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 ...
Just before little Indy Glover celebrated her fifth birthday in the summer of 2023, she had a seizure so severe she appeared ...
People in dangerous jobs don’t usually sleep well. New research is investigating if their susceptibility to concussions and ...
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.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes sudden seizures. Over 10-and-a-half years, she was in and out of the hospital, clocking over 100 medication adjustments.
REB Images/Getty Images. In a new study, scientists mapped lesions in the brain associated with epilepsy, identifying a brain circuit that can be targeted using brain stimulation.
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 ...
The brain is symmetrical, with an amygdala and a hippocampus on both the left and right side, and often seizures erupt from the structures on one side of the brain, researchers said.
Epilepsy is a disorder characterized by abnormal brain activity (often caused by a genetic condition, injury, or stroke) which results in seizures. Upwards of 3 million people in the U.S. live with ...
When medications don’t work to minimize seizures, surgery may become the only option. Now it may be possible a minimally invasive brain surgery could give people their lives back.