Dominant mesial temporal lobe resection for pharmacoresistant epilepsy is frequently associated with verbal memory impairment. More-extensive lesioning improves seizure outcome, but further ...

epileptic seizure Recurrence of seizures was reported in 28.2% of patients who attempted withdrawal. The majority of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy who experience seizure recurrence ...

Epilepsia, the official publication of the International League Against Epilepsy, recently published a one-year follow-up study that finds some post-surgical epilepsy patients have a significant ...

In a retrospective cohort, a clinical heuristic composed of eight binary variables helped identify which patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) were best suited for stereotactic laser ...

Aim The aim of this study is to quantify visual field defects after temporal lobectomy for mesial temporal sclerosis and to establish eligibility for driving. Methods Automated static perimetry was ...

Researchers report on three years of behavioral and brain imaging tests on a nearly seven year-old boy -- 'UD' -- who had a third of the right hemisphere of his brain removed in an attempt to control ...

“Much like tuning a high-precision radar to detect faint signals, SEEG enables clinicians to record subtle electrical signatures of seizures directly from deep brain structures,” says Dr. Jiajie Mo, ...