Epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease are bidirectionally related. Epilepsy is often complicated by progressive cognitive impairments, and late-onset epilepsy (onset generally after 55–65 years of age) is ...

Late-onset epilepsy (LOE) may represent a distinctive neurodegenerative-linked epilepsy subtype, with new data showing that individuals who develop epilepsy after midlife have substantially greater ...

An internationally validated, imaging-based score helps clinicians better identify patients with stroke at highest risk for epilepsy.

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were tied to higher risks of new-onset neurologic conditions later in life. Women with eclampsia had a five-times higher risk of developing epilepsy. Migraine risk ...

The investigators, in the Department of Neurosurgery in the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, developed a novel way to identify brain activity that could be predictive of the onset of a ...

Medically reviewed by Diana Apetauerova, MD Key Takeaways Epilepsy is often linked to genetic factors, brain injuries, ...

You can expect most epilepsy cases to improve with antiseizure drugs. Surgery is an option if medications do not work for your epilepsy. You may eat a ketogenic diet to help with treatment-resistant ...

Patients can spend anywhere from several days to several weeks in an epilepsy monitoring unit with electrodes protruding from holes drilled in their skulls. This is intracranial EEG, and it is now ...