The type of seizure you have depends on what area and how much of the brain's electrical activity is affected.

A new study has brought scientists one step further in the direction of developing a cure for a brutal group of rare brain ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

In an exciting scientific first, researchers at the Allen Institute successfully designed a new gene therapy that reversed ...

Study finds early surgery can cure epilepsy in children. March 12, 2013— -- Tom Parrent was home alone with his son 3-year-old Sam -- better known as "Spike" -- when after lunch the boy told his ...

An AI tool can detect tiny brain lesions causing drug-resistant epilepsy in children with up to 94% accuracy, potentially ...

For families of children with severe epilepsy, controlling seizures is often just the beginning of their challenges. Even in cases where powerful medications can reduce seizures, many children ...

An artificial intelligence tool that can detect tiny, hard-to-spot brain malformations in children with epilepsy could help patients access life-changing surgery quicker, Australian researchers said ...

Déjà vu—the eerie feeling that a new moment has happened before—has puzzled scientists and philosophers for centuries.

When brain development gets off to a bad start, the consequences are lifelong. One example is a condition called SCN2A haploinsufficiency, in which children are born with just one functioning copy of ...