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Myla Ray, 10, has suffered from over 700 seizures and survived multiple surgeries, intensive care and being put in a coma - ...
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 ...
Myla Ray, 10, is set to have 13 holes drilled into her skull in a 'desperate last-chance operation' after she endured more ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
KCNT1-related frontal lobe epilepsy. Seizures for these children typically start later than for those with the epileptic encephalopathy variant, but usually by adolescence.
All epilepsy is caused by misfiring electrical signals in the brain, but it’s their location that affects symptoms. Most epilepsy starts in the frontal and temporal lobes, but mine starts in the ...
Most epilepsy patients wait decades before being offered surgery and doctors say more might seek this option. The frontal lobe part of the brain, which controls executive functions and language ...