More information: Davide Giampiccolo et al, Thalamostriatal disconnection underpins long-term seizure freedom in frontal lobe epilepsy surgery, Brain (2023). DOI: 10.1093/brain/awad085 ...

Epilepsy and stroke are the 2 most common neurological disorders: at any one time 7 in 1000 people in the general population have epilepsy. Epilepsy usually begins in childhood, potentially impeding ...

By disconnecting certain pathways in the frontal lobe, patients may be able to enjoy long-lasting freedom from seizures. There are 500,000 people in the UK with epilepsy, and 50 million people ...

KCNT1-related frontal lobe epilepsy. Seizures for these children typically start later than for those with the epileptic encephalopathy variant, but usually by adolescence.

For medication-resistant epileptics, surgery is often the only way to stop seizures. However, for those with frontal lobe epilepsy, sometimes surgery doesn’t ensure the seizures stop.

Certain patterns of frontal lobe glucose hypometabolism may be associated with higher risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) among patients with refractory focal epilepsy, new ...

After the deduplication process, they conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 44 and 40 articles, respectively, involving 113 people with frontal lobe epilepsy and 1482 people with ...