Epilepsy articles within Nature

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    An estimated 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. But research funding is low, treatment can fail and the mechanisms of the disease are a mystery. By Neil Savage.

    • Neil Savage

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    Wearable devices that monitor seizures promise improvements in epilepsy treatments and research.

    • Elie Dolgin

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    Plagued by a history of fear and stigma, epilepsy has languished when it comes to research funding.

    • Lauren Gravitz

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    The development of effective antiepilepsy drugs is moving on from trial-and-error approaches to sophisticated molecular solutions.

    • Megan Cully

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    Not enough doctors and patients opt for surgery to treat epilepsy, despite clinical evidence of the benefits, says Samuel Wiebe.

    • Samuel Wiebe

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    For children with epilepsy whose condition is resistant to medication, a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet may help bring their seizures under control.

    • Rachel Brazil

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    Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders to affect the human brain. Many genetic aspects of the disease have been identified, but mechanisms remains elusive.

    • Charvy Narain

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    Epilepsy arises from natural mechanisms in the brain that go awry. Researchers are trying to unravel its complexities.

    • Michael Eisenstein

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    Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone.

    • David Wolman

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