Is there a cure for epilepsy?

Is there a cure for epilepsy?

Charles Ribak, Ph.D. (Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UC Irvine School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: If I have one seizure, will I definitely have another?; Is there a cure for epilepsy?; What are the surgical treatments for epilepsy? and more...

A cure for epilepsy is within our grasp. As it turns out, about 7 percent of people who have epilepsy keep it under control with medicines. We have a really good group of medicines that have been used for about the last 2 or 3 years. However, in the last year there have been a large number of new drugs that have been developed which have supplemented this barrage of medicines. So in terms of an absolute cure for epilepsy, we don't really have an absolute cure for epilepsy yet.