Many people diagnosed with epilepsy, or the parents of children diagnosed with it, have a lot of questions. One of the more common questions has to do with the symptoms of the ...
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According to a new study conducted on patients suffering from epilepsy, new findings may help doctors stop epileptic seizures for patients experiencing temporal lobe epilepsy. ...
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Any seizure occurs when someone undergoes a disturbance in their brain's normal electrical activity. All brains operate on an amazing number of electrical signals, and if ...
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Epilepsy is a condition that affects around 60 million people around the world. Although many people have their epilepsy under control, this is not the case for everyone. Even ...
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Named after British pediatrician, Frederick Batten, who first described it in 1903, Batten disease is a rare, genetically inherited nervous system disorder. It is the most common ...
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In the field of epilepsy and seizures, there is still a lot to learn. Technology continues to open new avenues of research. In a recent brain dynamics simulation study, published ...
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Epilepsy is defined as recurrent seizures that are not triggered by a fever. Febrile seizures occur in young children between the ages of six months and five years. So, if your ...
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Those who suffer from seizures are often told that they should abstain from drinking alcohol, as it can have some serious detrimental effects on them. While this doesn’t mean that ...
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More than 570,000 people who are 65 years or older have epilepsy, and adults are the fastest growth group for this disorder. Research from Jacqueline A. French, MD (neurologist at ...
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It was more than a decade ago that researchers discovered that mice who had Alzheimer’s disease could also suffer from symptomless, silent seizures. After the researchers ...
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