A ketogenic diet—one that is high in fat and extremely low in carbohydrates—has been known for decades to reduce seizures in some epilepsy patients. But how the highly restrictive diet achieves these ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have revealed how the popular, low-carb ketogenic diet protects against epilepsy seizures and possibly neurodegenerative diseases such as ...

Scientist Christine Charyton, PHD, had an idea. She knew that 80 percent of epileptic seizures occur in the region of the brain that houses the temporal lobe — the auditory cortex. The auditory cortex ...

MURRAY — Whitney Wilkinson was diagnosed with epilepsy at 12 years old, and throughout her life she has tried many different medications, treatments and surgeries. Just five years ago, she got a ...

A growing body of neuroscience research is converging on a counterintuitive idea: the disorderly brain activity triggered by LSD might actually work against the hyper-synchronized neural firing that ...