Clinical experience shows that the brain MRI of patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy is "normal," while research studies have shown that subtle brain abnormalities can be identified when ...

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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 ...

Study finds early surgery can cure epilepsy in children. March 12, 2013— -- Tom Parrent was home alone with his son 3-year-old Sam -- better known as "Spike" -- when after lunch the boy told ...

“Epilepsy patients are on seizure medicines on a day-to-day basis to prevent seizures from happening,” Cox said. “When we bring them into the hospital and evaluate them for surgery, we get them off of ...

“In most forms of epilepsy, seizures result from disrupted brain activity, but between seizures, brain activity is relatively normal,” Rubinstein said.

In the brain of a person living with epilepsy, the time between sunny skies and the storm striking ranges from minutes to hours, but the indicators are there up to a day before. To see these ...

Finally, the researchers took 3-millimetre cubes of brain tissue from a 9-month-old girl with epilepsy and placed them in MEDY, before freezing and thawing them.

The MEG provides greater coverage of brain activity, allowing for more accurate information and precise localization. This information is crucial for epilepsy surgeries, where surgeons can use MEG ...