A team of researchers from the Florida State University College of Medicine has found that an amino acid produced by the brain could play a crucial role in preventing a type of epileptic seizure.

The researchers found that clearing away damaged but undying brain cells (known as zombie cells) in mouse models of epilepsy ...

Of all neurological diseases, epilepsy is the one that has been most frequently linked to sex. "Coitus brevis epilepsia est" ("Sex is a brief seizure") is an ancient proverb attributed to Galen, the ...

Epilepsy is a disease marked by recurrent seizures, or sudden periods of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. One in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some ...

People with temporal lobe epilepsy in particular often wander around aimlessly and unconsciously after a seizure. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — UC San Diego Health is one of the first facilities in the nation using a new, experimental therapy to relieve epilepsy patients of their seizures, according to a press release from ...

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

Writing for The Conversation (republished below), researchers Jaideep Kapur, director of the University of Virginia Brain Institute, and Anastasia Brodovskaya, a UVA postdoctoral fellow in neurology, ...