About 150,000 new cases of epilepsy are confirmed in the U.S. each year. But the cause of epilepsy – a neurological condition that causes seizures – remains unknown for 6 out of 10 people. Scientists ...

One of the most common causes of epilepsy is a structural brain abnormality. “Epilepsy can result from structural issues in the brain, such as brain tumors, brain injuries, brain infections or ...

Q: My neighbor’s son was just diagnosed with KCNT1 seizures, and they said it was a very rare disorder. Aren’t seizures fairly common in children? A: The brain has many nerve cells that communicate ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common diseases affecting the nervous system and implies a predisposition to seizures. Per best estimates from CDC and WHO, there are 3.4 million people living with ...

Epilepsy is a disease marked by recurrent seizures, or sudden periods of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. One in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some ...

Stress can cause seizures or seizure-like activity in people with or without epilepsy, a neurological disorder that causes abnormal activity in the brain, resulting in seizures. Psychogenic ...

GLP-1s are linked to lower seizure recurrence, hospitalization, and mortality risk than other glucose-lowering drugs in ...

Our bodies use electrical signals to send information from cell to cell. An unexpected surge in that electrical activity, though, can cause a seizure — and while not every seizure is the same, they ...

There's no single definition of seizure clusters, also called cluster seizures. In general, it's a group of seizures that happen more often than you're used to within a certain span of time. Some ...

A Maryland man was arrested Friday and charged with cyberstalking after allegedly tweeting an animated strobe image to a journalist with epilepsy. The flashing image sent to Kurt Eichenwald, a ...

Doctors diagnosed Finley with epilepsy. No one else in the Mullen family has the seizure disorder, and Ashley and Will worked to learn as much as possible about it and document Finley’s ...