Positron emission tomography (PET) brain scans of a brain chemical messenger system may prove sensitive enough to help plan brain surgery for epilepsy, according to a study presented at the 130th ...

An imaging scan called SPECT records brain activity during epileptic seizures. The scan pinpoints where seizures originate, and helps in the planning of surgery to remove the part of the brain ...

“This is important for the epilepsy scans because we need to see very precisely which part of the brain is misbehaving.” Researchers tested this approach with 31 epilepsy patients whose ...

A variety of tests, including EEG, are used both to look for the abnormal electrical brain activity that causes epilepsy and to rule out other possible causes of seizures. A person’s medical ...

A PET, or positive emission tomography scan, uses radioactive elements to track the way chemicals being used in the brain. In the case of epilepsy, they use glucose, or blood sugar, because the ...

Researchers are using an advanced brain imaging method called MEG to understand why Parkinson’s drug levodopa doesn’t work ...

A new study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that a ketogenic diet significantly ...

Study participants underwent brain scans and cognitive testing in 2012 and 2017. At both time points, people with epilepsy had more amyloid plaques in their brains, a known risk of Alzheimer's ...

For about a third of epilepsy patients, drugs don’t work. Surgery is the next hope for a cure — but that depends on identifying the problematic spot in the brain. According to a new study, an imaging ...

Epilepsy and patients like Molaison have frequently been at the center of breakthroughs in understanding the mysteries of the brain. It is a window that has allowed researchers unparalleled access ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) brain scans of a brain chemical messenger system may prove sensitive enough to help plan brain surgery for epilepsy, according to a study presented at the 130th ...