Over the past two years, a Children's Hospital Los Angeles team has treated 10 children with thalamic responsive ...

Many people think seizures always involve dramatic convulsions, but medical experts said some of the most common signs can be ...

CLEVELAND — November marks National Epilepsy Awareness Month, drawing attention to a neurological condition that affects almost 3 million adults and nearly half a million children across the United ...

Dr. Mark Farrenburg said he wants people to know the difference between having a seizure and an epilepsy diagnosis this Seizure Awareness month.

Unlike conventional epilepsy treatments, which generally rely on medicines to suppress seizures across the brain, this ...

Three people with epilepsy resistant to drug treatment saw the number of seizures they had per month fall by more than 90%, ...

Historically, seizure action plans have focused on certain high-risk groups—such as people with drug-resistant epilepsy and people with a history of status epilepticus or seizure clusters. Neurology ...

A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status. These ...

A new patient-specific algorithm uses two EEG channels and cepstrum analysis to predict epileptic seizures with high accuracy ...

Christopher Sepúlveda was just 2 years old when his parents noticed something was wrong. Christopher began experiencing ...

If people with epilepsy could get “seizure warnings” akin to thunderstorm warnings, their neurological disorder might be less disruptive to their lives. That’s the goal driving work at the University ...

Hyperthyroidism has been linked to an increased risk of seizures. It may increase risk by creating excitability in your brain that lowers the threshold needed for one to occur. Hyperthyroidism is when ...