Epilepsy From Brain Injury Comes With Increased Risk Of Death, Experts Say

Researchers said severe injuries likely cause high levels of inflammation in the brain, increasing the risk of epilepsy.
Baylor College of Medicine

Higher mortality rates found in veterans with epilepsy after traumatic brain injury

Veterans who develop epilepsy following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) face a higher risk of death than veterans with ...
Medscape

Seizure Burden in Resistant Epilepsy May Ease With the Tincture of Time

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy improves over time, but seizure reduction appears to be unrelated to specific medications ...

New Study Offers Hope for People With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy

The new study, part of the international Human Epilepsy Project, tracked nearly 150 adults who were deemed ...
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New study offers hope for patients with treatment-resistant focal epilepsy

About one-third of patients with focal epilepsy, a common form of the neurological disorder, are believed to respond poorly ...

'Nobody told my daughter about epilepsy death risk'

Martin Walker said his daughter Amber was never told about her 1 in 150 chance of of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy ...

Mitochondrial epilepsy could originate in a specific group of brain neurons

A team led by the UAB Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB) has for the first time identified the mechanism behind a ...
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Troy High students launch epilepsy awareness campaign

Six students from Troy High have launched a nonprofit called Project Synara with the goal of educating the public about ...
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Veterans with post-traumatic brain injury epilepsy more likely to have higher mortality rates

Military veterans who develop epilepsy after a traumatic brain injury may have a higher mortality rate in the following years than veterans who develop epilepsy with no previous traumatic brain injury ...