A ketogenic diet—one that is high in fat and extremely low in carbohydrates—has been known for decades to reduce seizures in some epilepsy patients. But how the highly restrictive diet achieves these ...

The paper brings together insights from both laboratory discoveries and real-world patient outcomes, showing that ketogenic diets do far more than reduce seizures. The review outlines how these strict ...

Seizures can affect your daily life and well-being. Certain medicines can help lower the risk of having seizures, which can help manage your condition. Fycompa is a medicine used to manage ...

Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Characterized primarily by seizures, epilepsy can present in a variety of ways depending on the individual and the ...

Ketogenic diets, which are high in fat and very low in carbohydrates, have long been known to reduce epileptic seizures in some patients, but it hasn’t been clear why. A new study by WashU Medicine ...

Seizure control may take time—often a year or more—but most patients achieve it, bringing new hope for life with epilepsy. For millions of people living with ...

Purple Day, observed annually on March 26, raises epilepsy awareness and dispels myths. Despite affecting 50 million people worldwide (WHO, 2022), epilepsy remains misunderstood, leading to stigma and ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota — In a neurology lab at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Benjamin Brinkmann studies the brain's electrical rhythms across days, weeks and months — searching for patterns that reveal when seizures ...

Epilepsy in women isn’t static. It doesn’t stay the same year after year, or even month to month. It shifts. And a big part of that has to do with hormones quietly rising and falling in the background ...

In 1994, a coalition of experts in brain health and epilepsy published a consensus statement on the appropriate criteria for driver licensing for people with epilepsy. Issued by the American Academy ...

A neurologist shares her thoughts and research about “ecstatic epilepsy” in a wide-ranging conversation on how we perceive the world—and create the world we perceive Jo Marchant - Correspondent People ...