Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy correlated with a reduction in imaging-defined brain age, indicating ...

SAN FRANCISCO – African Americans are less than half as likely as non-Hispanic whites to undergo surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy, according to research that will be presented at the American ...

Temporal lobe epilepsy, which results in recurring seizures and cognitive dysfunction, is associated with premature aging of brain cells. A new study from researchers at Georgetown University Medical ...

There is evidence that neuropsychological outcome following temporal lobe epilepsy surgery might be better in children than in adults. Variation between the populations in different studies makes it ...

LEBANON – More than three-million people in the United States live with epilepsy. Of those individuals, about one in six cannot control their seizures with medications or surgery alone. Uncontrolled ...

A discovery from Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers could provide epilepsy patients invaluable advance guidance about their chances to improve symptoms through surgery. Assistant ...

For years, a small but vocal group of doctors has argued that surgery may be the best way to treat some cases of epilepsy. But the procedure is drastic -- requiring the removal of a walnut-sized piece ...

Epilepsy affects approximately 1-in-26 people and the most common form, known as temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), often cannot be adequately treated with anti-seizure medications. Patients with this form ...

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 ...

People with severe epilepsy who undergo brain surgery have markedly fewer disabling seizures during the following year than those relying on medication do, a study finds. Epilepsy patients become ...

For my Ph.D. research, I spent four years investigating changes in sex drive and behaviour after neurosurgery for epilepsy. Some patients reported hypersexuality, or a dramatic increase in sex drive ...