While generalized seizures cause convulsions, epilepsy includes other types like absence seizures (brief awareness lapses), ...

But obviously, it happens in my practice because I see patients every day with epilepsy. It is even more common in patients who have really bad epilepsy. So that's one of the risk factors.

A seizure occurs when there is sudden abnormal electrical activity that temporarily interrupts normal brain function. Large groups of neurons fire at the same time like an electrical storm inside ...

Locating seizure onset zones is a critical requirement for epilepsy surgery. This often relies upon intracranial recordings, but finding the exact zone can still present challenges. An experimental ...

"One of the worst feelings we get is when a patient who underwent surgery begins having seizures again. It suggests some of the bad, seizure-generating tissue is still present," said senior study ...

A Republican senator suffered a seizure and a brain bleed after slipping ... Cramer described "pretty bad headaches" the following day but said the brain bleed had improved.

My name is Robbie, I'm eleven years old, and I live in Edinburgh. Some people might have really bad epilepsy where they have like…like big seizures… but I just have absences which is just like ...

There are numerous ways to support those around us living with epilepsy (Picture: Getty Images) Imagine the scenario: a loved one has just been diagnosed with epilepsy, a much-misunderstood brain ...

People with epilepsy may report having a ‘bad week’ at the start of each month, a cluster of seizures every 10 days, or other cyclic patterns. However, while anecdotal evidence of long-term ...

They're searching for a scent that no human can detect: the scent of an epileptic seizure. We've long known that dogs can detect seizures in humans in some cases 45 minutes before they occur.