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TL;DR: A 35-year-old woman with 20 years of seizures that medicines could not control became seizure-free after surgery removed a small fluid-filled cyst and the nearby part of her brain where seizures started. It is one case, so it cannot prove the cyst cause…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv tested an interpretable machine-learning model for focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), a lesion linked to drug-resistant epilepsy, and found that hemispheric-asymmetry MRI features classified 39 of 50 subjects correctly in leave-o…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Nature recorded human hippocampal neurons during propofol anesthesia and found preserved oddball-tone discrimination, short-term plasticity, and language-related semantic coding during surgical loss of consciousness. Key Findings 7 surgi…
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