A ketogenic diet—one that is high in fat and extremely low in carbohydrates—has been known for decades to reduce seizures in some epilepsy patients. But how the highly restrictive diet achieves these ...

Ketogenic diets, which are high in fat and very low in carbohydrates, have long been known to reduce epileptic seizures in some patients, but it hasn’t been clear why. A new study by WashU Medicine ...

Scientist Christine Charyton, PHD, had an idea. She knew that 80 percent of epileptic seizures occur in the region of the brain that houses the temporal lobe — the auditory cortex. The auditory cortex ...

MURRAY — Whitney Wilkinson was diagnosed with epilepsy at 12 years old, and throughout her life she has tried many different medications, treatments and surgeries. Just five years ago, she got a ...