Seizures are more common than many people may think. Here are some simple steps you can take to protect a person having a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seizures may be of two main types, partial and generalized. There are four components of a seizure. Each of the four components are distinctly different and distinguished. Not all seizure types will ...

I am following a 12-year-old girl with a 4- to 5-year history of episodic severe periumbilical abdominal pain that is mostly spontaneously relieved after about 5-10 minutes. She experiences no ...

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 ...

The worst thing about the epileptic seizure Dan Wheeless suffered on the first day of eighth grade wasn't dropping to the floor in the hallway and awakening with no memory of how he got there. It wasn ...

Epilepsy surgery has been shown to be an effective treatment for patients with intractable epilepsy. The only randomized controlled trial conducted in this setting to date found a dramatic advantage ...