The seizures of around one-third of people with epilepsy are resistant to available medicines — a statistic that haunts neurology. It has been this way for decades. The medicines have got better by ...
Eight Northwestern researchers published a study April 29 detailing how RNA therapy could be used before birth to combat a ...
A novel cell therapy is safe and effective in patients with drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and could eventually offer an alternative intervention.
The burden of Epilepsy care and management has gradually shifted from lack of knowledge and information to the gap in treatment. While Epilepsy is manageable and treatable, it requires a ...
Research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests how a newly developed gene therapy can treat Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, and potentially prolong survival for ...
There are many different types of epileptic seizures, but all of them spur from batches of overactive neurons. While gene therapies have shown promise in treating epilepsy, most of those developed so ...
A new form of gene therapy designed to treat the most treatment-resistant form of childhood epilepsy appears to reduce seizures in mice. In a research article published Dec. 14 in Brain, researchers ...
Something like 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. While the majority of these people are able to use medications to manage and prevent their seizures, around one-third don’t respond well to ...
London-based medical device manufacturer LivaNova has announced FDA approval of its most recent Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy (VNS Therapy) System, which will be the smallest and lightest responsive ...
Focal cortical dysplasia is caused by areas of the brain that have developed abnormally and is among the most common causes of drug-resistant epilepsy in children. It frequently occurs in the frontal ...
Compared with children with epilepsy who received assessment-enhanced usual care, those who received MICE therapy demonstrated improved symptoms of emotional and behavioral difficulties. Young ...