New Brain Stimulation Treatment Shows Safe Cognitive Results for Epilepsy
Source: Epilepsia open
Summary
Researchers studied a new treatment called epicranial focal cortex stimulation (eFCS) for people with epilepsy that does not respond to medication. The study involved 11 patients who had different types of focal epilepsy. The goal was to see how this brain stimulation affected their thinking and memory over time.
The key findings showed that most of the patients did not experience any decline in their cognitive abilities after receiving the treatment for about three years. In fact, three patients even showed improvements in their thinking skills at follow-up visits. While some individual test scores went down at certain times, no patient had a consistent decline in their cognitive function.
These results are important because they suggest that eFCS might be a safe option for people with epilepsy, even when it targets areas of the brain that are crucial for thinking and memory. However, the study had a small number of participants, and some patients changed their medications during the trial, which could affect the results. More research with larger groups of patients is needed to confirm these findings and better understand the treatment's effects.
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