The unpredictable, debilitating nature of a seizure can be frightening, for both the person experiencing it and anyone watching nearby. In that moment, control often slips away as muscles stiffen, ...

"They did a brain scan but said that nothing was wrong, and they told me that it's likely never to happen again," Isabella ...

The research, published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience, reveals that after a seizure occurs, the brain enters a ...

Seizure control may take time—often a year or more—but most patients achieve it, bringing new hope for life with epilepsy. For millions of people living with ...

A neurologist shares her thoughts and research about “ecstatic epilepsy” in a wide-ranging conversation on how we perceive the world—and create the world we perceive Jo Marchant - Correspondent People ...

How Does Epidiolex Work for Seizures? Seizures are caused by sudden electrical activity changes in the brain. These changes are temporary but result in changes in movement, behavior, sensation, or ...

The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new ...

ATLANTA -- In health matters it's not often that older people do better than their younger peers, but seizure disorders may be an example, suggested a cross-sectional study. Liverpool Seizure Severity ...

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Emma Evens was just a child when she had her first seizure, but the 32-year-old admits it took her decades to come to terms with having a condition that few people truly understood. Not only did she ...

Imagine we could switch on bliss, the feeling that everything in your body and the world is completely, utterly … perfect. That might one day be possible, according to Fabienne Picard, a French Swiss ...