Using a laser for a rare brain surgery to treat drop seizures, which cause a child with epilepsy to suddenly fall, holds some advantages over a traditional open craniotomy, including shorter hospital ...

New technologies such as laser and robotic surgery are helping to battle epilepsy, and the goal is to make Peoria OSF the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery released a position statement supporting the ...

The NHS is rolling out a new laser treatment for epilepsy that offers a less invasive alternative to conventional neurosurgery. The technique, MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), is ...

All his life, Keagan Dysart had seizures that looked like he was laughing. But they were not fun. It sounded like, almost like a maniacal giggle, explained Keagan's father Khris Dysart. Up to three ...

A new type of laser therapy is safe and effective for children with drug-resistant epilepsy, new research suggests. In a study of nearly 150 children, more than half of those who received MRI-guided ...

Some people with tough-to-treat epilepsy might benefit if doctors target a brain region newly linked to the disorder, a new study suggests. Seizures declined by 83% after a patient underwent surgery ...

ABU DHABI, 19th May, 2026 (WAM) -- Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi has become the first hospital in the Middle East to introduce Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT) for the treatment of epilepsy and ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. About three million people in the United States have epilepsy, including about a million who can't rely on medication to control ...

A simple scoring system from researchers at Rutgers Health and other institutions may help doctors predict which patients will likely become seizure-free after minimally invasive epilepsy surgery.