Candidates for epilepsy surgery undergo an extensive pre-surgery evaluation. The tests help to pinpoint the area in the brain where the seizures begin, called the seizure focus, and to determine ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers identified 13 factors that may prolong pre-surgical evaluations in epilepsy, nine of which ...

Patients with epilepsy often undergo evaluation by concurrent video and EEG monitoring (vEEG) for therapeutic planning, including possible epilepsy surgery. Seizures during monitoring increase the ...

Research exploring epilepsy as a network abnormality rather than a focal one continues to grow. Dynamic models of the brain can be constructed via sophisticated magnetic resonance imaging techniques ...

A recent Chinese effort — known as Omni-iEEG — brings together pre-surgical brain recordings from eight epilepsy centers, covering 302 patients and 178 hours of data, trying to benefit epilepsy ...

A study found that the characteristics and location of epilepsy centers in the United States are associated with differences in presurgical testing for drug-0resistant epilepsy. The location and ...

More than three million people in the U.S. suffer from epilepsy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About one-third of people with epilepsy don't respond to medications used ...