The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has released its first guideline for the management of functional seizures, providing clinicians with timely recommendations on treating the commonly ...

Epilepsy refers to a group of fairly common long-term conditions where individuals suffer from recurrent and spontaneous seizures. Seizures are characterized as spontaneous bursts of neural electrical ...

In patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy, nearly 70% of seizure relapses are linked to potentially modifiable factors, including poor adherence and inadequate ASM dosing, rather than drug resistance.

Seizures are characterized by abnormal changes in the brain’s electrical activity. These changes can cause loss of consciousness or involuntary movements, like shaking or jerking. If you have two or ...

There's no single definition of seizure clusters, also called cluster seizures. In general, it's a group of seizures that happen more often than you're used to within a certain span of time. Some ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says about 50 million people worldwide are living with epilepsy, with nearly 80 per cent ...

Scientists who study Alzheimer’s disease have mostly ignored the role of seizures, but that is beginning to change, and new research suggests they may provide insight into the progression of the ...

Methamphetamine, an illegal drug that sends the body into overdrive, is surging through the United States. Federal drug data provided exclusively to NPR show seizures of meth by authorities have ...

Epilepsy is a condition in which people have recurring seizures. Doctors diagnose epilepsy if people have had more than one seizure. Brain tumor-related epilepsy (BTRE) is a type of epilepsy that ...