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 ...

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 ...

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

Mumbai, March 9: Patients suffering from epilepsy will soon receive faster diagnosis and treatment at KEM Hospital, as the hospital’s neurology department is set to install an additional advanced ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new advance from Carnegie Mellon University researchers could reshape how clinicians identify the brain regions responsible for drug-resistant epilepsy. Surgery can be a life-changing option for ...

Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm Dr Andrew Wilner and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr Barbara Jobst. Dr Jobst is an epileptologist and professor of neurology at Dartmouth ...