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For treatment of seizures, please see Seizures - first aid. If an underlying cause for recurrent seizures (such as infection) has been identified and treated, seizures may stop.
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Surgery can be used to treat patients whose intractable seizures stem from small focal lesions that can be removed without endangering the patient, changing the patient's personality, dulling the patient's senses, or reducing the patient's ability...
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Seizure disorders in children are usually treated with anticonvulsant drugs. Doctors attempt to use a single drug for this purpose, but more than one may be required.
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The goal of epilepsy treatment is to eliminate seizures or make the symptoms less frequent and less severe. Long-term anticonvulsant drug therapy is the most common form of epilepsy treatment.
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The goal of epilepsy treatment is to eliminate seizures or make the symptoms less frequent and less severe. Long-term anticonvulsant drug therapy is the most common form of epilepsy treatment.
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The treatment goal of any epilepsy is freedom from seizures with no side-effects of medications. Although this is the goal, it is frequently not attained.
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One challenge in predicting the course of epilepsy is that for any type, there can be a variable response to treatment. Sometimes, seizures may play a rather small role in the manifestation of a medical condition.
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A Harvard Medical School doctor answers your question about vagus nerve stimulation, now being tested for the treatment of depression.
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Hemispherectomy is a surgical treatment for epilepsy in which one of the two cerebral hemispheres, which together make up the majority of the brain, is removed.Hemispherectomy is used to treat epilepsy when it cannot be sufficiently controlled by ...
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An anterior temporal lobectomy(ATL) is the complete removal of the anterior portion of the temporal lobe of the brain.ATL surgery has been recognized as an efficient treatment option for certain types of seizures in patients diagnosed with tempora...
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Corpus callosotomy is a treatment for epilepsy, in which a group of fibers connecting the two sides of the brain, called the corpus callosum, is cut.Corpus callosotomy is used to treat epilepsy that is unresponsive to drug treatments. A person wit...
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Corpus callosotomy is a treatment for epilepsy, in which a group of fibers connecting the two sides of the brain, called the corpus callosum, is cut.Corpus callosotomy is used to treat epilepsy that is unresponsive to drug treatments. A person wit...
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