This is why getting treatment right away is important. Not everyone who has a seizure has epilepsy. Often a diagnosis of epilepsy can be made after two or more seizures by a neurologist. Atypical ...

Jett Travolta died, reportedly because of a fall caused by a seizure. Jett was known to have epilepsy. When a tragedy happens to a celebrity, media coverage is extensive, and people with epilepsy and ...

Welcome to the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado & Wyoming! In 2024, we are celebrating our 60th anniversary! Over the past 60 years, we have focused on connecting, educating, and empowering to improve ...

Seizures were described as eye fluttering during the transition between wakefulness and sleep. EEG showed generalized and multifocal epileptiform abnormalities. Seizure types consist mostly of ...

Jan. 22, 2025 — Doctors could soon reduce epilepsy misdiagnoses by up to 70% using a new tool that turns routine electroencephalogram, or EEG, tests that appear normal into highly accurate ...

Some types of epilepsy are not caused by structural problems in the brain. If you have one of these types of epilepsy, you may not be offered an MRI scan. Some examples of these are: Childhood absence ...

Looking for information on children's epilepsy surgery? You can find our information on children’s epilepsy surgery here. Epilepsy surgery could be for you if you have drug resistant epilepsy. This ...

For patients with more ambiguous or complex clinical features, Clinical exome sequencing (CES) was chosen to broaden the scope of genetic analysis beyond epilepsy-specific genes. WES was employed for ...

As frightening as they can be, seizures are also more common than many people realize. One person in 10 is likely to have a seizure in their lifetime, according to the Epilepsy Foundation.

For the sake of clarity, these conditions can be grouped in three separate categories: acute neurological injuries, specific childhood epilepsy syndromes with prominent tendency for NCSE ...

Epilepsy refers to a group of neurological disorders of varying aetiology, characterized by recurrent brain dysfunction that result from sudden excessive and disordered neuronal discharge. These ...