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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...

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...

Drug 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...

Epilepsy 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...

Child, 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...

Epilepsy Drugs for Children

Common epilepsy drugs for partial or tonic-clonic seizures include brivaracetam (Briviact), carbamazepine (Carbatrol or Tegretol), phenytoin (Dilan...

If 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...

How to Measure Your Waist

It’s easy to measure your waist.

Serotonin 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...

Depression 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...

Parkinson'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...

Understanding 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 ...