In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. The ...

Despite substantial innovations in antiepileptic drug therapy over the past 15 years, the proportion of patients with uncontrolled epilepsy has not changed, highlighting the need for new treatment ...

Most newly diagnosed patients with focal epilepsy continued to have seizures for a year or more after starting antiseizure medications (ASMs), results from the latest Human Epilepsy Project (HEP) ...

Rice University bioengineers have demonstrated a nonsurgical way to quiet a seizure-relevant brain circuit in an animal model. The team used low-intensity focused ultrasound to briefly open the ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders and a leading cause of disability worldwide. Research has suggested that associated conditions, such as stigma, anxiety, and depression, can ...

The basal ganglia comprise a set of interconnected subcortical nuclei that traditionally regulate motor planning and behavioural selection. In recent years, these structures have emerged as critical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock With trillions of dollars on the line, it should come as no ...