However, when there is a sudden, intense burst of electrical activity in the brain, the messages between cells get mixed up ...

More than 50 million people worldwide live with epilepsy, with approximately half of them being children. For about one-third ...

Investigators in the laboratory of Gemma Carvill, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology Division of Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology, have discovered novel ...

How Optogenetics Can Put the Brakes on Epilepsy Seizures Nov. 15, 2024 — In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like ...

One in five epilepsy patients has uncontrolled seizures due to brain abnormalities too subtle for doctors to spot.

Surgery to remove these lesions can be an effective way to stop epileptic seizures, but they are difficult to see with the human eye, researchers said. “Many of the children I see have ...

Epilepsy diagnosis is an imperfect science. Approximately 30% of patients are misdiagnosed after their first visit.

The Epilepsy Society says some children’s seizures can occur in response to triggers such as stress, excitement, boredom, missed medication, or lack of sleep. The charity recommends keeping a diary of ...

Being able to distinguish between the different types of seizures can help you to choose the right course of action. There are two types of non-epileptic seizure: febrile, which is related to a ...