I don’t talk about this much, but I think it’s time. This is what someone with epilepsy looks like. I live with something called simple partial epilepsy, which are also known as focal aware seizures.

If your child has a seizure, it's natural to have plenty of concerns about what exactly happened, why, and what comes next. There are treatments that can help, but a lot depends on the cause of the ...

Updates to a 1980s classification system of epilepsies and seizure types, which identify several types of seizure not captured in the previous version, are expected to allow more fully informed ...

About 60-70% of focal epilepsy patients achieve seizure control with first-line antiseizure medications (ASMs). Lamotrigine and levetiracetam demonstrate high efficacy and tolerability for seizure ...

Prior to being diagnosed with epilepsy, 5% of people with a type of epilepsy called focal epilepsy had a seizure while driving, according to a new study published in the June 7, 2023, online issue of ...

MINNEAPOLIS – Prior to being diagnosed with epilepsy, 5% of people with a type of epilepsy called focal epilepsy had a seizure while driving, according to a new study published in the June 7, 2023, ...

Epilepsy, or a seizure disorder, is a medical condition in which there are periods of abnormal electrical brain activity. Seizures can cause a temporary change in a person’s physical behavior or ...

A seizure is a sudden change in the brain's normal electrical activity. During a seizure, brain cells "fire" uncontrollably at up to four times their normal rate, temporarily affecting the way a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study analyzed 83 adolescents with focal epilepsy who presented to EDs. Nonmotor seizures were less likely ...

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Credit: Getty Images Jacqueline French, MD, highlights the treatment gap that exists among adolescents with nonmotor seizures that are often missed or misdiagnosed in emergency departments. Early ...