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 ...

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 ...

If you or a loved one has experienced a seizure, you know how scary they can be. The uncontrolled jolting, stiffening of the body, and even loss of consciousness can be unnerving under the best of ...

Provoked seizures are not considered to be epilepsy, which is defined as two or more unprovoked seizures, and provoked seizures typically do not require long-term treatment with antiseizure medication ...

Your seizure threshold is one factor that influences your likelihood of having a seizure. People with epilepsy tend to have a lower seizure threshold, meaning they’re more likely to have seizures.

Writing for The Conversation (republished below), researchers Jaideep Kapur, director of the University of Virginia Brain Institute, and Anastasia Brodovskaya, a UVA postdoctoral fellow in neurology, ...

A team of epilepsy specialists at UC San Francisco has developed a method to predict 24-hour seizure risk. The discovery, which may be scalable to large numbers of patients, could help to improve the ...

Individuals with Parkinson’s disease face a greater risk of experiencing seizures compared to those without the condition, and this risk is even higher if you already have other seizure-related ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting roughly 50 million people around the world. It’s a condition characterised by seizures which involve episodic, abnormal activity in ...