More frequent seizures during the menstrual cycle in women with genetic generalized epilepsy have been linked for the first time to drug-resistant epilepsy, when anti-seizure medications don't work, ...

People with generalized epilepsy who have seizures arising from both sides of the brain simultaneously, have a higher risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) compared to patients who have focal epilepsy ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A medical diagnosis has turned everyday moments into moments of worry for one East Texas family. Their three-year-old son lives ...

New Brunswick, N.J. (October 28, 2021) – Combining electroencephalogram (EEG) data with clinical observations can help doctors to better determine whether generalized epilepsy patients will respond to ...

-- New approval for VIMPAT® (lacosamide) CV in the U.S. as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures (PGTCS) in patients four years of age and older -- All three ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee ―The retention rate for the antiseizure drug perampanel (Eisai Co, Ltd) is more than 70% for adult patients with epilepsy, new research shows. In early results from the PERPRISE ...

NEW ORLEANS — Compared to women with other types of epilepsy, those with frontal lobe epilepsy have the highest risk of seizures worsening during pregnancy, new research shows. Investigators found ...

Valproate (Depakene) emerged as the best first-line choice for generalized epilepsy in a pragmatic study and lamotrigine (Lamictal) as the best first-line treatment for focal epilepsy, British ...