What Is an Absence Seizure? Symptoms, Causes and More: By Shreoshree Chakrabarty Absence seizures are a type of epilepsy marked by brief lapses in awareness, often mistaken for daydreaming. Most ...

Locating the centromedian nucleus (CM) for deep brain stimulation (DBS) is challenging with standard imaging. This review highlights advanced methods—high-resolution MRI, intraoperative ...

A new technique has enabled ultra-powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners to identify tiny differences in patients’ brains that cause treatment-resistant epilepsy. In the first study to use ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The new ...

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, ...