An eight-month-old infant with rare but severe epilepsy was cured after receiving an experimental gene replacement in a ...

An 8-month-old infant with severe genetic epilepsy has become the first patient in the world to receive an experimental gene ...

A study reveals rural Americans with epilepsy face higher mortality and diagnostic gaps, emphasizing the need for improved ...

Autoimmune epilepsy is a newly defined group of conditions characterized by recurrent seizures associated with autoimmunity. Cancer and infections are two potential triggers. Epilepsy is a seizure ...

The treatment, administered at Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel in Petah Tikva, is a major milestone in the ...

The researchers of a single-center study found that the relationships between epilepsy and autoimmune diseases may be a result of the different etiopathogenetic mechanisms that underly seizure ...

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Epilepsy isn't always easy to diagnose. Seizures often don't occur during routine brain-wave recordings (EEGs), leaving doctors without the direct observation they need to make a clear diagnosis.

A recent retrospective study by Vossel and colleagues [2] covering a 5-year period (2007-2012) reported on 12 patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and 35 patients with Alzheimer ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have succeeded in showing, in an animal model, that the process of insulin resistance in the brain affects both Alzheimer's disease and ...