Half of people with newly diagnosed epilepsy will become seizure-free with the first epilepsy drug they try. For the rest, it's try, try again: You switch epilepsy medications, adjust to side effects, ...

When Hunter Bambino was 9 years old, his parents started noticing something strange in his behavior. "I would be trying to field the baseball and I would freeze. That led to a medical consultation in ...

Patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy often cycle through multiple medications as they seek relief from the seizures that disrupt their lives. Yet in many cases, these drugs offer little benefit, ...

Temporal lobe resection, also called temporal lobectomy, is a surgery that can lower the number of seizures you have, make them less severe, or even stop them from happening. During the operation, the ...

Ten to twenty percent of the patients admitted to the intensive care (ICU) after cardiac arrest and resuscitation shows signs of brain activity that appears like epilepsy. For a long time, it was ...

In our Medical Myths series, we approach medical misinformation head on. Using expert insight and peer reviewed research to wrestle fact from fiction, MNT brings clarity to the myth riddled world of ...

Seizures have been described as irregular activity of the nerves in your brain, and sometimes these irregularities can become recurrent or chronic. When seizures become a consistent problem, this ...

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder in which the normal chemical and electrical activities between nerve cells in the brain, or neurons, become disturbed. This disturbance causes the neurons ...