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

I don’t remember a time when my dad wasn’t ‘poorly’, as my mum used to frame it. My older brother Michael and I were told his head was unwell and given a booklet aimed at children, about a pebble ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

including ‘drop seizures’ which result in a loss of muscle tone and stiffening of muscles, and generalised tonic-clonic seizures, which involve muscle jerking and loss of consciousness.

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 ...

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 ...