4 January 2023
A trial of 160 people found that pairing standard epilepsy therapies with a low-carbohydrate diet reduced seizures by more than 50 per cent in a quarter of participants
2 December 2022
Musician Liza Bec has musicogenic epilepsy, a rare form of epilepsy triggered by music. Despite this, she has found innovative ways to continue playing
9 February 2022
A new technique called sonogenetics uses ultrasound to switch on and off genetically altered brain cells. It has been successfully tested in mice, and could be a future tool for treating brain conditions such as Parkinson's or epilepsy in humans
28 March 2019
Service dogs for people with epilepsy can tell when their owners are having a seizure, but we don’t know how. Now an experiment suggests they can smell seizures
17 December 2018
A radical approach of implanting stem cells into the brain could stop epilepsy seizures at their source, but the treatment has only been tested in rats so far
31 July 2018
A boy had a third of his right brain hemisphere removed to treat his epilepsy. His brain has now rearranged itself, preventing any cognitive impairment
26 June 2018
Epidiolex has become the first drug derived from marijuana to win FDA approval in the US, and will be used to treat two forms of childhood epilepsy
