Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain that affects the nervous system. Epilepsy causes abnormal electrical activity in the brain, which leads to seizures. There are many types of seizure medication, all ...

Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, finds a new global study led by researchers at UCL and UTHealth Houston. Focal ...

While older drugs for epilepsy, taken while pregnant, have been shown in previous research to affect the creative thinking of children, a new study finds no effects on creativity for children born to ...

Scientists are moving toward a genetic test that could help thousands of mothers with epilepsy safely take life-saving ...

Neurona Therapeutics and UCSF researchers have developed and characterized a cell therapy alternative to treat drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), the most common type of focal ...