This transcript has been edited for clarity. Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm your host, Dr Andrew Wilner. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr Christos Lisgaras about his ...

A recent retrospective study by Vossel and colleagues [2] covering a 5-year period (2007-2012) reported on 12 patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and 35 patients with Alzheimer ...

Autoimmune epilepsy is a newly defined group of conditions characterized by recurrent seizures associated with autoimmunity. Cancer and infections are two potential triggers. Epilepsy is a seizure ...

The researchers of a single-center study found that the relationships between epilepsy and autoimmune diseases may be a result of the different etiopathogenetic mechanisms that underly seizure ...

Gene editing can repair a DNA error in mice that causes Dravet syndrome, a rare, incurable, and potentially deadly form of ...

In a world first, a research team at the University of Zurich has successfully treated mice carrying an inherited form of ...

Slowly and inexorably, Alzheimer’s disease steals a person away. Taking memory and cognitive abilities. Pilfering personality and social skills. Robbing a person of the ability to care for herself.

Observational data point to a relationship between the vascular system and epilepsy beyond the brain. Among people ages 40 and older, heart attack survivors had a disproportionately greater risk of ...

Professor Paul Nwani, the neurologist at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, is the President of the Nigerian League against Epilepsy. In this interview with Sade Oguntola, he ...

While uncommon, seizures affect about 5 percent of people with multiple sclerosis. Learn about the link between MS and seizures, how they are treated, and when to see a doctor.