Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

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Seizures in children are usually linked straight away to fever, family history or epilepsy, but doctors still keep running into cases where an infection of the nervous system is the real trigger. This ...

A new study suggests temporal lobe epilepsy may be linked to early aging of certain brain cells. When researchers removed these aging cells in mice, seizures dropped, memory improved, and some animals ...

About 60-70% of focal epilepsy patients achieve seizure control with first-line antiseizure medications (ASMs). Lamotrigine and levetiracetam demonstrate high efficacy and tolerability for seizure ...

Background The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) produces prevalence estimates for ‘idiopathic epilepsy’ (ie, of unknown aetiology) and ‘secondary epilepsy’ (ie, with known aetiology) but does not ...

These seizures stem from excessive electrical discharges in the brain, a kind of "neuronal storm" that, in severe cases, can disrupt breathing and cause sudden death. A more common risk is ...