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 ...

Generalized epilepsy has traditionally been considered a seizure of the "'whole brain.'" However, new research has challenged ...

Cell survival depends on the energy molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP)—it's like the fuel that keeps our brain running.

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been ...

Physical and imagined movement through real-world environments may use the same neural mechanism in the brain, suggests a Nature Human Behaviour paper. The findings might help us to better understand ...

I wanted a dad who’d be at the school play or one that could take part in sports day and if he’d had a fit or was poorly he cou ...

A novel study has shed new light on the brain structures critical to human verbal memory, offering valuable insights for ...

2025 — Researchers demonstrated that individuals who had childhood epilepsy have an increased accumulation of brain amyloid later in life, potentially predisposing them to late-onset brain ...

Epilepsy is a long-term (chronic) disease that causes repeated seizures due to abnormal electrical signals produced by ...