Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders in the world. According to the World Health Organization, around 50 ...

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

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have revealed how the popular, low-carb ketogenic diet protects against epilepsy seizures and possibly neurodegenerative diseases such as ...

The researchers of a single-center study found that the relationships between epilepsy and autoimmune diseases may be a result of the different etiopathogenetic mechanisms that underly seizure ...

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 ...

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Observational data point to a relationship between the vascular system and epilepsy beyond the brain. Among people ages 40 and older, heart attack survivors had a disproportionately greater risk of ...

Autoimmune epilepsy is a newly defined group of conditions characterized by recurrent seizures associated with autoimmunity. Cancer and infections are two potential triggers. Epilepsy is a seizure ...

My 28-year-old son is in the hospital. He hasn’t been acting like himself for a few weeks (not sleeping nor eating well), and ...

A recent retrospective study by Vossel and colleagues [2] covering a 5-year period (2007-2012) reported on 12 patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and 35 patients with Alzheimer ...