epilepsy

Epilepsy surgery effective in controlling seizures

Epilepsy surgery is effective in controlling seizures over long term, researchers have found.

According to the findings of the recent research, nearly half of epilepsy sufferers who underwent epilepsy surgery remained free from seizures for about a decade.

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Epilepsy, schizophrenia cross linked--study

In a remarkable medical breakthrough, researchers in Taiwan claim to have discovered a bidirectional link between epilepsy and schizophrenia.

The susceptibility shared between the two neurological disorders, researchers believe, may be fueled by genetic, environmental, or neurobiological reasons.

Scientists closer to knowing what's on our mind

Reading minds is way more than just a concept with scientists lending a practical angle to it in a groundbreaking research.

Researchers at the University of Washington have hit upon a way to read and translate thoughts into words and restore 'speech' to the deprived ones.

At the Centre for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology, director Eric Leuthardt led a team of scientists to unearth a path for following word formation in the deepest corners of the brain as humans think and speak.

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