Can epilepsy be cured?

  Epilepsy can be completely cured! The root cause of epilepsy is the epileptogenic focus in the brain, and eliminating the epileptogenic focus is the only way to eradicate epilepsy. The current drugs are designed to inhibit the discharge of epileptogenic foci (reduce the intensity of discharge) or reduce the spread of discharge (inhibit the spread of epileptogenic discharge) through various mechanisms, and do not target the epileptogenic foci themselves, so drugs cannot theoretically cure epilepsy with obvious epileptogenic foci. The current methods of curing epilepsy, i.e., eliminating epileptogenic foci, include craniotomy, stereotactic destruction of epileptogenic foci, and gamma knife inactivation of epileptogenic foci. According to domestic and international statistics in the past decade, more than 67% of patients with epilepsy who underwent surgery had their seizures disappear completely; more than 30% of patients had significant improvement in their seizures. Moreover, the success rate has further improved in the development of epilepsy surgery in recent years.