12 April 2023
Mice that received gut microbes from children with epilepsy on the ketogenic diet were protected from seizures. The finding suggests the microbiome is behind the diet's seizure-reducing effect
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
15 August 2022
Adults who had the left or right hemisphere of their brain removed as children to treat epileptic seizures had accuracy scores of over 80 per cent on word and face recognition tasks
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
15 June 2021
Dogs trained to alert owners when a seizure is imminent confused sweat from people with epilepsy with sweat from people who had been watching Stephen King's It
18 March 2020
A new kind of brain implant can detect and turn down the harmful nerve cell activity that are signals of certain symptoms of Parkinson's disease
13 November 2019
A build-up of cholesterol in the brains of people with a severe form of epilepsy can cause prolonged seizures, but it may be possible to treat this with statins
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
