The brain never rests: even during deep sleep or under anesthesia, it maintains rhythmic electrical activity known as slow ...

For families of children with severe epilepsy, controlling seizures is often just the beginning of their challenges. Even in ...

Vikram Rao, director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, discusses why a third of seizure patients don’t respond to medication and the promising new surgical and technological treatments available.

New research shows that slow oscillations in the brain, which occur during deep sleep and anesthesia, are guided by neuronal excitability rather than structural anatomy.

Researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences in Spain have discovered that slow brain waves during sleep and anesthesia are ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting 3.4 million Americans or 1 in 26 over a lifetime. The ...

A study using CRISPR restored brain connectivity and made the brain more resilient to seizures, which are often seen in a ...

When brain development gets off to a bad start, the consequences are lifelong. One example is a condition called SCN2A ...

Randy Sorgenfrei maintains buildings and grounds for Hall County, likes to hunt pheasants and watch football. He also has epilepsy. But today he lives a normal life, going to work and wherever he ...