Evidence Shows RF-TC Improves Seizure Control by Altering Brain Networks

Evidence shows RF-TC improves seizure control by altering brain networks

Drug-resistant epilepsy affects millions of people worldwide and remains one of the most difficult neurological disorders to treat. For patients whose seizures continue despite medication, surgical removal of seizure-causing tissue can be effective.

A Brain on Fire Rewired: Heat Therapy for Epilepsy Works by Reshaping Entire Neural Networks

The electrodes were already there. Surgeons had threaded them months earlier, fine wires snaking through millimetre holes in the skull to sit inside the brain itself, recording the electrical storms that define drug-resistant epilepsy. At a hospital affiliated with Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, a team of neurosurgeons had been watching those storms, mapping where they started and how they spread, until they knew enough to act. Then t…