Epilepsy
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"Thanksgiving of 1999 was going to be a great day.
My mom was coming home from the hospital after having surgery, and our entire family would be together for a big dinner that afternoon. It was shaping up to be a great holiday—that is, until I had my first seizure."
For nearly 10 years, Kate Curreri suffered from severe epileptic seizures and lived with life-altering side effects from her many medications.
In her first-person account, Kate shares her story about how an experimental treatment has changed her life.
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New clinical trial for children with treatment-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy
Patients with severe epilepsy can have seizures every day – sometimes waking up on the floor, not knowing what happened. For about 1 in 3 epilepsy patients, drugs are of no help. 
Alex Rotenberg, MD, PhD, a neurologist in Children’s Hospital Boston’s Epilepsy Program, has been having success with an experimental technique for this kind of disabling, treatment-resistant epilepsy.
Known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), it has helped a small number of patients with no other good options for controlling their seizures.
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