What's New in Epilepsy? How Does the NeuroPace RNS System Work? Tolerability References How Does the NeuroPace RNS System Work? There are many important differences between VNS and the NeuroPace RNS ...

Not all seizures involve convulsions. Silent epilepsy can appear as déjà vu, sudden fear, blank stares, confusion, or brief memory lapses. Know the subtle warning signs.

To address the research gap in familial focal epilepsy with variable foci (FFEVF), investigators assessed the clinical features of a family with FFEVF that included 4 patients in 3 generations and 1 ...

The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. About three million people in the United States have epilepsy, including about a million who can't rely on medication to control ...

A systematic review found that intermittent diazepam and continuous phenobarbitone reduce the recurrence of febrile seizures in children, but the drugs have mild-to-moderate adverse effects. Because ...

Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm Dr Andrew Wilner and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr Barbara Jobst. Dr Jobst is an epileptologist and professor of neurology at Dartmouth ...

Dr. Lara Basovic: A 41-year-old man was admitted to the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) of this hospital because of seizures. When the patient was 4 years of age, his mother noticed an episode of ...

Scientists are testing a strikingly simple idea for calming some of the brain’s most stubborn seizures: remove the aging cells that seem to be fanning the flames. Instead of cutting out large pieces ...