"Detailed MRI brain scans are used to find out the causes of epilepsy and can show if any parts of the brain are shrunken. By measuring the parts of the brain that are shrunken and how well a person ...

For example, a functional MRI (fMRI) focuses on brain activity by indirectly measuring blood changes in different brain regions," Pilmeyer explains.

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A new scanning technique is giving hope to people with epilepsy who haven’t been helped by medication. Scientists in the UK ...

A new study has identified brain regions crucial for remembering words and how they are affected in people with temporal lobe epilepsy.

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The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.