The Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics is organising two public lectures on the subjects of seizure emergencies and orphan drugs on April 7 and 9 respectively to be addressed by Prof ...

Witnessing someone with epilepsy having a seizure can be truly frightening. But most seizures aren't an emergency. They stop on their own with no permanent ill effects. There are simple steps you can ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Seizures are caused by chemical changes in your body that affect the way your nerve cells talk to one another. This leads to sudden electrical activity inside your brain that can last a few seconds or ...

Provoked seizures are not considered to be epilepsy, which is defined as two or more unprovoked seizures, and provoked seizures typically do not require long-term treatment with antiseizure medication ...

FORT CAMPBELL, KY -- As part of Blanchfield Army Community Hospital's Continuing Medical Education (CME) series, the director of Vanderbilt's Epilepsy Center presented a discussion on ...

Being in the presence of someone having a seizure can be an unsettling experience for an observer seeing it for the first time. But with thousands of Canadians affected by epilepsy, it’s not that ...

Dissociative seizures are similar to epileptic seizures as they cause involuntary movements and behaviors. However, unlike epileptic seizures, dissociative seizures can occur without corresponding ...