Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes repeated episodes of unprovoked seizures. There is no cure for epilepsy, but medications may help keep symptoms under control. Epilepsy is almost always ...

Initiation of GLP-1s was associated with an 18% lower risk for seizure recurrence and a 65% and 60% lower risk for hospitalization and mortality, respectively, than initiation of other ...

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What Is a Seizure and What Is Epilepsy? Seizures, abnormal movements or behavior due to unusual electrical activity in the brain, are a symptom of epilepsy. But not all people who appear to have ...

Optogenetics employs a harmless virus to deliver light-sensitive genes to a particular set of neurons in the brain that can then be switched on and off with pulses of light. In a first, UC researchers ...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a common side effect of epilepsy. But you can do plenty to reduce your ED symptoms while also managing epilepsy. Epilepsy is a condition that affects your brain and ...

Sulthiame demonstrated significant reductions in respiratory pauses and improvements in oxygen levels during sleep, offering hope for patients with obstructive sleep apnea who cannot use continuous ...

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), as the name suggests, is a rare but serious event that causes the death of a person during a seizure for unexplained reasons. SUDEP is rare in people with ...

More than a decade after her original diagnosis, she suddenly had episodes of losing consciousness. Was this a different type of seizure? By Lisa Sanders, M.D. “I’m feeling a little stroke-y,” the ...

What comes to mind when you think of a slime tutorial? Hundreds of videos of children using glue and borax to make some horrifying concoction, perhaps? For the theater community, the phrase’s meaning ...

Neurona Therapeutics’ epilepsy treatment could be a breakthrough for stem-cell technology. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it ...