EPILEPSY AND MENTAL HEALTH: MAPPING THE INTERFACE AND ENABLING WELL-BEING




Opening New Hope: Capturing Lives with Epilepsy Surgery

Introduction:   Epilepsy, or neurologic illness with repeated unprovoked seizures, is an illness with a victim among over 50 million persons worldwide. While most patients can manage the illness on medication, drug-resistant epilepsy — an anti-seizure medication-refractory epilepsy — occurs in about 30% of patients. In such patients,

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