Epilepsy refers to a group of neurological disorders of varying aetiology, characterized by recurrent brain dysfunction that result from sudden excessive and disordered neuronal discharge. These ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded breakthrough therapy designation to uniQure's AMT-130 for treating ...

Vaclav Kremen, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic researcher and co-lead author of the study The researchers monitored five patients with temporal lobe epilepsy throughout their DBS treatment. The system allowed ...

Ictal asystole, ictal bradycardia and ictal AV block predominantly occurred during focal dyscognitive seizures in people with temporal lobe epilepsy. No deaths were reported suggesting that ictal ...

The asset, dubbed NRTX-1001, is currently being tested in an open-label phase 1/2 trial among patients with drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), plus another phase 1/2 study for ...

Abnormalities in the temporal or frontal lobes of the brain are the most common reason for memory problems in people with epilepsy, but memory problems can happen in all types of epilepsy. The types ...

often hailed as the gold standard for those with temporal lobe epilepsy. It involves carefully removing the part of the brain responsible for generating seizures—and in many cases, it offers ...

Memory formation depends on neural activity across a network of regions, including the hippocampus and broader medial temporal lobe (MTL). Interactions between these regions have been studied ...

The cerebellum (“little brain”) is a fist-sized portion of the brain located at the back of the head, below the temporal and occipital lobes and above the brainstem. Like the cerebral cortex, it has ...

Background: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most prevalent refractory focal ... Moreover, it might help in the lateralization of epileptogenic foci and exploration of the transmission and ...

Heredity (genetics or the physical traits we get from our parents) plays an important role in many cases of epilepsy. Advances in science and medicine over the last decade have led to a better ...