A review of randomized controlled trials suggests patients with epilepsy refractory to medical management may benefit from vagal nerve stimulation. A new review suggests that vagal nerve stimulation ...

A research team proposes an innovative sequential narrow-field deep brain stimulation procedure to treat intractable epilepsy. Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder characterized by recurrent seizures.

Abstracts from the American Epilepsy Society (AES) display potential benefits of cannabidiol (CBD) on pediatric patients with epilepsy in tertiary care centers and highlight areas where further ...

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Three-year-old had 1,000 seizures a day. Now, she only has a handful, mom says. Addyson Benton, a 3-year-old girl who has epileptic seizures has made a dramatic improvement since moving to Colorado to ...

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 ...

Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder characterized by recurrent seizures. About 30 percent of epilepsy patients are known to be drug-refractory, which means they do not respond to drug treatments.