Is your child behaving unusually: experiencing unexplained staring spells or full body shaking? Are you worried whether your child has epilepsy? If your child has epilepsy, are you afraid to send him/ ...

Febrile seizures are a common occurrence in young children, typically affecting those between six months and five years of age. These seizures are triggered by fever, often due to infections ...

Lessens or stops communication between hemispheres Certain types of seizures can be stopped, and other types become less frequent. This surgery is mostly done in children whose seizures start on one ...

An absence seizure causes you to blank out or stare into space for a few seconds. They can also be called petit mal seizures. Absence seizures are most common in children. They usually don’t cause any ...

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 ...

The ketogenic diet, or ketogenic diet therapy, is sometimes used as a treatment for epilepsy. For some children and adults, the ketogenic diet helps to control their seizures. There are different ...

Debbie McCrudden was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2014 and was worried about having children. For Debbie, who has epilepsy, the risk of seizures made pregnancy and new motherhood an anxious time.

This article discusses some of the issues related to protocols for emergency anticonvulsant treatment of acute seizures and status epilepticus with particular emphasis on the use of benzodiazepines in ...

Dan-Dan Zhang, from Qingdao Municipal Hospital at Qingdao University in China, and colleagues examined the relationship of epilepsy with brain function, other common brain disorders, and their ...

On the second day of the new year, the Hollywood couple, John Travolta and Kelly Preston lost their son. Jett Travolta died, reportedly because of a fall caused by a seizure. Jett was known to have ...

The pediatric epilepsy team at Johns Hopkins has almost 100 years of experience in treating epilepsy with the ketogenic diet. More than 1,500 children have been enrolled in our ketogenic diet program ...

Children with various types of childhood epilepsy that do not respond to the usual seizure medicines may be candidates for treatment with adrenocorticotropic hormone or ACTH. ACTH is a first-line ...