During their lifetime, about 3 percent of persons will be diagnosed with epilepsy, but about 70 percent of persons with epilepsy eventually go into remission. After a first seizure, antiepileptic ...

Generalized epilepsy has traditionally been considered a seizure of the "'whole brain.'" However, new research has challenged this longstanding idea, since carefully targeting specific brain areas ...

Recurrent seizures are debilitating and can sometimes, be fatal. The onset and presentation of seizures vary significantly among epilepsy patients. Of more than 25 categories of seizure presentations ...

Recurrent seizures are debilitating and can sometimes be fatal. The onset and presentation of seizures vary significantly among epilepsy patients. Of more than 25 categories of seizure presentations ...

Researchers have proposed an open, bitfield-based numerical encoding that fits the entire ILAE 2025 seizure classification ...

Patients with refractory partial and secondarily generalized seizures had a reduction in seizures after deep brain stimulation, according to new research. This multi-center clinical trial determined ...

MIAMI, Aug. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avenue Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATXI) ("Avenue" or the "Company"), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of ...

Neuroimaging has transformed our understanding of generalized epilepsy syndromes, revealing that they arise from the dynamic interplay of widespread brain networks rather than isolated foci. Advances ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

In a randomized, placebo-controlled, time-to-event trial in idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), the median time to the second day with a generalized tonic-clonic seizure was 141 days in the ...

Background: About 50 persons in 100,000 have epilepsy. In 30 to 40 percent of cases, seizures are generalized. This form of epilepsy usually begins at an early age and has a genetic predisposition, ...

A new mouse study shows that electroconvulsive treatment can drive hippocampal neurons back to an immature state only from ...