Drug-Resistant Epilepsy

Jul 29, 2026

For most of medical history, the brain has been the one organ we could describe but barely touch. Today, that's changing fast. A new wave of devices, implants, and algorithms is learning to listen to the brain's electrical language, and, increasingly, to talk back to it. This convergence of neuroscience, engineerin...

Feb 09, 2026

Summary Drug-resistant epilepsy affects 20-40% of epilepsy patients in the US, rising to 30-40% in adults versus 7-20% in children, with similar rates (over 25%) in Europe; about one-quarter of newly diagnosed cases progress to DRE. Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS Therapy by LivaNova) is FDA-approved for drug-r...