The type of seizure you have depends on what area and how much of the brain's electrical activity is affected.

Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain that affects the nervous system. Epilepsy causes abnormal electrical activity in the brain, which leads to seizures. There are many types of seizure medication, all ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Gary Gualberto, MD, is a board-certified neurologist with SSM Medical Group at SSM St. Joseph Hospital West in Lake Saint Louis.

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 ...

For 70% of patients with epilepsy, drugs can control seizures. However, they can't cure epilepsy, and most people will need to continue taking medications. An accurate diagnosis of the type of ...

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is one of the most common types of epilepsy worldwide. Although symptomatic medications are available, one-third of TLE patients remain unresponsive to current treatment, ...

A team of epilepsy specialists at UC San Francisco has developed a method to predict 24-hour seizure risk. The discovery, which may be scalable to large numbers of patients, could help to improve the ...