The Diagnostic Window Bottleneck: Neurologists rely heavily on EEGs to diagnose epilepsy, but standard clinical sessions provide only a 20-minute snapshot of brain activity, making manual detection ...

Epilepsy isn't always easy to diagnose. Seizures often don't occur during routine brain-wave recordings (EEGs), leaving doctors without the direct observation they need to make a clear diagnosis.

When a high fever triggers seizures in a child, the experience can be very scary for the parents, but most of the time, the seizures will resolve on their own. Febrile seizures are convulsions that ...

A subtle type of seizure goes undetected two thirds of the time in pediatric emergency departments, a new study shows. The work focuses on "nonmotor" seizures, which cause children to "zone out" and ...

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder involving multiple seizures. Seizures are the result of abnormal electrical activity in the brain. The symptoms depend on what regions of the brain are affected by ...

Researchers are optimistic after early results showed that experimental drug treatment zorevunersen may significantly reduce the number of seizures in children with a rare and severe form of epilepsy.

Seizures in children are often linked to epilepsy, but medical experts caution that not every seizure is necessarily due to ...

When an elderly person becomes confused, forgetful or dizzy, most loved ones want to look past it, assuming the momentary pause is a natural part of aging. But these episodes may be caused by a ...

Younger adults with difficult-to-treat epilepsy may have early signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in their brain tissue, but it appears to be uncommon, according to a small, preliminary study.

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