Tonic-clonic seizures, perhaps the most commonly known seizure where a person stiffens, drops to the floor and begins to shake, is one of roughly 40 different types of seizure. Each have their own ...

It showed there was a series of events that tended to happen with SUDEP: a tonic-clonic seizure — where a person loses consciousness and has stiffening and jerking of the muscles — followed by ...

The mislabeling poses a significant health risk, as patients receiving the drug could inadvertently be administered double ...

In his latest column, Gordon shares his family’s journey after his son Adam was diagnosed with epilepsy, reflecting on the ...

Over the course of 3 weeks, she had experienced focal clonic and tonic seizures every 1–2 min, involving the left arm and the left side of her face, sometimes accompanied by impaired awareness ...

Adjunct (partial-onset or tonic-clonic seizures): initially 50mg twice daily (alternatively, may initiate with a 200mg single loading dose, followed 12hrs later by 100mg twice daily for 1 week ...

The fellows gain expertise in evaluating and treating focal seizures with or without impaired awareness, bilateral tonic-clonic seizures, neurological emergencies such at status epilepticus, primary ...

What to do if your child has a seizure? If a child experiences a tonic-clonic seizure (when their body goes stiff and the type of seizures most people associate with epilepsy) the Great Ormond Street ...

Objective: To determine the efficacy and tolerability of magnesium valproate as monotherapy in patients with partial or generalised epilepsy. Design and Setting: This was a nonblinded study ...