Medications for epilepsy are mainstays in controlling epileptic seizures. But surgical procedures are another dimension in treatment. Learn about your options.
The type of treatment prescribed will depend on several factors, including the frequency and severity of the seizures and the person's age, overall health, and medical history.
This is one of the oldest treatments for epilepsy, and helps lessen seizures.
Biofeedback, melatonin, and large vitamin doses can help. Read on.
Learn the risks and benefits of this epilepsy surgery.
There is no cure for epilepsy, but medications may help keep symptoms under control.
Treatments for epilepsy have come a long way in the last decade. Doctors have more than twice as many epilepsy medications to choose from than they did 10 years ago.
There are a wide number of medications available for treating epilepsy in children, and advances in the past years have made a difference.
Sometimes, brain seizures begin in a vital area of the brain -- for example, in areas that control movement, feeling, language, or memory.
A temporal lobe resection is a surgeryperformed on the brain to control seizures. In this procedure, brain tissue in the temporal lobe is resected, or cut away, to remove the seizure focus.
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