Xavier Horton made history in February 2019 by becoming the first patient in Alabama and the 27th in the nation to undergo deep brain stimulation (DBS) as a treatment for epilepsy. Horton, who had ...

A University of Alabama at Birmingham pediatric neurosurgeon has performed the first deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedure for epilepsy at Children’s of Alabama (COA), offering a new treatment option ...

Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...

ATLANTA -- Are neurostimulators implanted within the brain a better approach in epilepsy than less-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)? That depends, a researcher said. Real-world data from two ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases, affecting around 50 million people worldwide, and carries a debilitating burden for the patient. It is characterized by recurrent seizures ...