DURHAM — Epilepsy Durham Region is hosting a free public lecture aimed at helping caregivers and adult children of people living with epilepsy.The incidence of epilepsy increases with age and in ...

A seizure is a medical condition that causes abnormal activity and/or body movements after a sudden and uncontrolled disturbance in your brain. Most people associate seizures with a condition called ...

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 ...

Each year, around 50,000 of the three million Americans living with epilepsy will die from prolonged seizures, from a condition called SUDEP — the sudden, unexpected death of someone who was otherwise ...

A team of epilepsy specialists at UC San Francisco has developed a method to predict 24-hour seizure risk. The discovery, which may be scalable to large numbers of patients, could help to improve the ...

Seizures are unpredictable and often cause a sense of panic among those who witness them. For an onlooker, it can look like a person has suddenly lost control of their body, making it a frightening ...

Seizures in babies occur when an unusual burst of electrical activity occurs between neurons, or brain cells, in the brain. Signs and symptoms include eye rolling, clenching of muscles, and keeping ...

While research doesn’t indicate that migraine directly causes seizures or vice versa, the two conditions often occur together, with individuals experiencing epilepsy being more prone to migraine and ...