SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Intermountain Health neurologists are celebrating a major surgical milestone: the 100th use of an implantable device that reduces seizure activity in patients with focal ...

EpilepsyGTx, a biotechnology company developing cutting-edge gene therapies to treat refractory epilepsy, and ClearPoint ...

Epilepsy affects more than 50 million people worldwide, making it one of the most common neurological disorders. Although ...

One hundred epilepsy patients at Intermountain Health have been treated with a brain implant designed to stop seizures as ...

The unpredictable, debilitating nature of a seizure can be frightening, for both the person experiencing it and anyone watching nearby. In that moment, control often slips away as muscles stiffen, ...

Emerging biomarkers and genetic profiles may help identify patients with high risk for sudden epileptic death.

After the storm comes the calm. But contrary to the famous proverb, the brain's neurons enter a period of calm before the ...

If your child has a seizure, it's natural to have plenty of concerns about what exactly happened, why, and what comes next. There are treatments that can help, but a lot depends on the cause of the ...

If you have seizure clusters -- multiple seizures within a short time -- you or your doctor may notice that they're more likely to happen at certain times or in certain situations. For about 30% of ...

A new study has found a pattern of molecules that appear in the blood before a seizure happens. This discovery may lead to the development of an early warning system, which would enable people with ...

If people with epilepsy could get “seizure warnings” akin to thunderstorm warnings, their neurological disorder might be less disruptive to their lives. That’s the goal driving work at the University ...