A 21-year-old man, who had been suffering from epilepsy for 10 years, was finally cured of the neurological disease after an ...
A Chilliwack mother faces a year-and-a-half wait for an epilepsy procedure. The hospital that performs them, VGH, can only do ...
A new technique has enabled ultra-powerful MRI scanners to identify tiny differences in patients’ brains that cause treatment ...
This article is authored by Dr Amit Kumar Agarwal, senior consultant, neurosciences, neurology and stroke medicine, Amrita ...
But for about a third of epilepsy patients, medications fail to halt their seizures and surgery may be necessary to remove or disconnect damaged brain tissue responsible for causing seizures.
Previously, 7T MRI scanners have suffered from signal blackspots in crucial parts of the brain, most commonly in the temporal ...
Lesions were better visualized on pTx than circularly polarized MRI in 57% of cases and were never better visualized on circularly polarized MRI.
The new method offers greater precision than standard MRI scans, improving the chances of successful surgery. MRI plays a ...
With NIH support, biomedical engineer Sri Sarma develops neurotechnologies to improve understanding and treatment of epilepsy ...
Tiny brain lesions in people with epilepsy may go undetected by conventional 3T MRI scanners, advanced 7 Tesla MRI provides ...
Doctors cured her epilepsy with surgery that removed her lesion. They took this step after three different drugs failed to stop her seizures. Now, a new breakthrough could mean that even more ...