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 ...

The causes of focal onset seizures can include epilepsy, stroke, or low blood sugar. Other times, the causes are unknown. Medication can help prevent focal seizures. The human brain works by sending ...

In simple partial seizures there is no loss of consciousness, but sensations such as sound, taste, smell, feeling and look may be altered along with emotions. Complex seizures cause a loss of ...

Most people think of someone falling to the ground and shaking uncontrollably when they hear the word “seizure.” That type of seizure, called a generalized tonic-clonic seizure, is scary to witness ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asking patients with focal epilepsy (also known as partial seizures, which usually involve focal areas of the body and altered consciousness) how often they have seizures does not appear to provide an ...

Researchers from the Arkansas Epilepsy Program found treatment with rufinamide results in a significant reduction in seizure frequency compared with placebo, for patients with uncontrolled ...