According to a recent study headed by UCL researchers, slow waves, which are generally only present in the brain during sleep, are also present while patients with epilepsy are awake and may guard against the condition's heightened brain excitability.
People with a genetic predisposition for Alzheimer's disease may have an increased risk of epilepsy and people with a certain type of epilepsy may have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a study.
bout 1 in 26 people have epilepsy, and the most common type, temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), is frequently ineffectively treated with anti-seizure drugs. Neurosurgery may be necessary for patients with this type of epilepsy in order to stop their seizures. Uncertainty surrounds the causes and