A seizure occurs when there is abnormal electrical activity in the brain. There are different types of seizures depending on where and how much brain activity is affected. If someone is seizing make ...

Epilepsy presents differently in each person. The condition has a range of symptoms that varies. Convulsions can be one sign of epilepsy. However, people often experience epilepsy without ever having ...

Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Characterized primarily by seizures, epilepsy can present in a variety of ways depending on the individual and the ...

A new synthesis finds that common epilepsies are driven by thousands of tiny-effect genetic variants, most still undetected. A modestly larger whole genome association study (GWAS) for genetic ...

GWAS power plots. Power plots of current and future GWAS estimated using MiXeR (21), displaying the estimated proportion of SNP-heritability explained by genome-wide significant SNPs as a function of ...

IVIG may reduce seizure frequency in some children with drug-resistant epilepsy, especially those with generalized seizures.

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes temporary brain dysfunction. The aftermath of an epileptic seizure varies for ...

People with generalized epilepsy who have seizures arising from both sides of the brain simultaneously, have a higher risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) compared to patients who have focal epilepsy ...

NeuroPace, Inc. (Nasdaq: NPCE), a medical device company focused on transforming the lives of people living with drug ...