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What is a Functional Hemispherectomy?
This type of brain surgery helps control severe seizures that come from one side of your brain. This helps your doctor figure out where in your bra...
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Epilepsy and Extratemporal Cortical Resection
The largest part of the brain, the cerebrum, is divided into four paired sections, called lobes -- the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal l...
Read moreDrug Treatments for Essential Tremor
When Essential Tremor significantly interferes with daily activities, long- term drug treatment is needed. In social situations, a person with mild...
Read moreEpilepsy Treatments: Find The Right Medication
Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes repeated episodes of unprovoked seizures. Your doctor or nurse may refer to epilepsy medications as antiep...
Read moreChild, Sports, and Epilepsy
To the parents of a child with epilepsy, the world may seem an especially dangerous place. There are a few extra precautions that parents of childr...
Read moreEpilepsy Drugs for Children
Common epilepsy drugs for partial or tonic-clonic seizures include brivaracetam (Briviact), carbamazepine (Carbatrol or Tegretol), phenytoin (Dilan...
Read moreIf Your Child Has Epilepsy
If your child has epilepsy, your to-do list is different from that of a parent of a child that doesn't have it. Having epilepsy may place restricti...
Read moreSerotonin Syndrome
Serotonin syndrome is when your body has too much of a chemical called serotonin, usually because of a medication or combinations of medications. N...
Read moreDepression in Older People
Clinical depression in older people is common. The National Institute of Mental Health considers depression in people 65 and older to be a major pu...
Read moreParkinson's Disease and Mental Health
When you have Parkinson's disease, it's not unusual to get some mental health problems along with it, like depression. Some mental health issues ar...
Read moreUnderstanding Bipolar Disorder: Symptoms
The primary symptoms of bipolar disorder are periods of elevated or irritable mood accompanied by dramatic increases in energy, activity, and fast ...
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