HOUSTON – Michael Francis had uncontrolled, drug-resistant seizures. He wasn’t able to work, he couldn’t have a license to drive and he said it was starting to take away part of his identity. “You ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Long-term use of Xcopri was safe and reduced seizures by more than 90% in adults with uncontrolled focal ...

Medically reviewed by Diana Apetauerova, MD Key Takeaways Epilepsy is often linked to genetic factors, brain injuries, ...

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. The ...

Could certain types of hormonal contraceptives cause an increase in seizures in women with epilepsy? A recent Texas A&M Health Science Center study suggests that ethinyl estradiol, the primary ...

House Bill 392, introduced by McLean Democrat Kathleen Murphy, would require medical examiners to participate in training developed by the Epilepsy Foundation of Virginia that provides guidelines for ...

Two anti-seizure drugs -- levetiracetam (Keppra and others) and clobazam (Onfi, Sympazan) -- can cause a rare but serious hypersensitivity reaction known as drug reaction with eosinophilia and ...

Optogenetics employs a harmless virus to deliver light-sensitive genes to a particular set of neurons in the brain that can then be switched on and off with pulses of light. In a first, UC researchers ...