Many patients suffer from epilepsy that cannot be controlled by current medications. Surgical removal of epileptogenic brain regions is effective in only about half of cases, and not all patients are ...

A 24‑year‑old man has died from a rare form of dementia—leaving his brain to medical researchers in the hope of advancing future treatments. Andre Yarham from Norfolk, England was diagnosed with ...

A new study suggests temporal lobe epilepsy may be linked to early aging of certain brain cells. When researchers removed these aging cells in mice, seizures dropped, memory improved, and some animals ...

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You might want to grab an extra handful of your favorite bar snack. A new study suggests that a simple, everyday food can supercharge blood flow in your brain — a vital function that tends to weaken ...

“Much like tuning a high-precision radar to detect faint signals, SEEG enables clinicians to record subtle electrical signatures of seizures directly from deep brain structures,” says Dr. Jiajie Mo, ...

1 Research Team in Neurology and Neurogenetics, Medical School and Pharmacy, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco. 2 Department of Neurology and Neurogenetics, Specialties Hospital, CHU Ibn Sina, ...

I don’t know. I don’t have a sense of who I am. Marc Pierrat’s mind once ran as smoothly as the gears on his endurance bike. He was a mechanical engineer by training and a marathoner for fun, a guy ...

Understanding how our brain interprets social hierarchy or facial emotions may be key to advancing our knowledge of anxiety and mood disorders. This is the aim of the project led by researcher Maya ...

Abstract: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE), a common form of focal epilepsy, is associated with recurrent seizures originating in the temporal lobe, often leading to cognitive and psychological ...

When someone we know or love starts to develop psychological issues, we don't often associate it with a form of dementia. However, this trait is one of the most common signs of frontotemporal dementia ...

~ No serious adverse events and 92% reduction in seizure frequency observed in the first trial participant through first five months of follow up ~ ~ Data to be presented today at Epilepsy Therapies & ...