Clearing out “aged” brain cells dramatically reduced seizures and restored memory in a new epilepsy study.

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 ...

Ancient Greek physicians, including Hippocrates, challenged myths about epilepsy, shifting from divine to medical explanations.

When epileptic patients suffer seizures, their brain is undergoing repetitive and excessive neuronal firing. But what triggers this has stumped scientists for years. Now, researchers have used ...

Migraines and epilepsy often go hand in hand. If you have epilepsy, you’re more than twice as likely to get migraines as someone who doesn’t. The reverse is true, too. People with migraines are more ...

Since 1983, eight new AEDs have been introduced (see Table 2 below). Sadly, a recent VA study of more than 21,000 subjects aged 65 years and older revealed that 80% were being treated with ...

When Sarah Jay had her first seizure, she was in her mid-20s and working a high-stress job at a call center in Springfield, Mo. "I was going to go on break," she says. "I was heading towards the ...

Doctors remove part of woman's brain to treat seizures induced by Sean Paul song Jan. 19, 2008 — -- Stacey Gayle really liked dancehall reggae artist Sean Paul's music, but it turned out one of ...