The problem involves enzyme-inducing antiseizure medications, which can accelerate the breakdown of contraceptive hormones ...

Roughly one-third of people with epilepsy prescribed certain hormonal contraceptives were also prescribed anti-seizure ...

Researchers at Yale have identified a promising new approach to osteoarthritis that could do more than simply ease pain. The epilepsy drug lacosamide appears to block a protein involved in both pain ...

Frequent cannabis users with drug-resistant epilepsy have more convulsive seizures and require more antiseizure medications, ...

Genetic medicines and more selective small molecules are finally pushing the field toward new mechanisms — and potentially disease-modifying treatments.

Adults with Down syndrome and epilepsy face a significantly higher risk of developing all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease.

As vaccination rates rise and municipalities begin to reopen, remembering simple social behaviors—like making small talk with co-workers or hugging a parent hello—is suddenly baffling. For people with ...

When you hear the words “brain surgery,” it is absolutely normal to feel terrified. For a person living with epilepsy, the ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 1.2% of people in the United States have active epilepsy. It affects around 3 million adults and 470,000 children in the ...

When 20-year-old Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce died of "sudden unexpected death in epilepsy" (known as SUDEP) in 2019, his parents had not even heard of the condition. "We didn't know about SUDEP.

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, ...

About 50 million people globally have epilepsy. Half of these are women. Until now, treatments for men and women have been identical. But men and women experience epilepsy differently. As we outline ...