Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE) is a neurological condition causing brief, unnoticed seizures often mistaken for daydreaming. Starting around age 4 and peaking at 6-7 years, it is treatable with ...

It is a drug prescribed to around 65,000 men and boys in England, most often to manage epilepsy. But it has also become a byword for scandal. Valproate is a teratogenic medicine, meaning it can ...

Background. A 20-year-old woman presented to a specialist epilepsy center with a 3-year history of drug-resistant epileptic seizures, progressive myoclonus, ataxia, and cognitive decline.

Correspondence to Mark Nowell, Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Institute of Neurology, Box 29, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, ...

This year and every year, the Epilepsy Foundation is working to stop the fear and misconceptions about epilepsy within the Black community to support better health for all Black and African Americans.

As they play such a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, they have become the targets of many drugs for conditions such as epilepsy, anxiety, depression and insomnia. Yet due to ...

The symptoms were mild in all but 3 cases who then discontinued PER treatment. The study included a total of 24 patients including 15 with LGS, 2 with epilepsy with myoclonic atonic seizures (EMAtS), ...

class Melainabacteria on generalized epilepsy with tonic-clonic seizures, class Betaproteobacteria, and order Burkholderials on juvenile myoclonic epilepsy are demonstrated in this MR analysis. This ...

Access this 30-minute online training from anywhere, anytime. Seizure First Aid Ready educates the public on the Epilepsy Foundation’s basic procedures for responding to someone having a seizure. The ...

Myoclonic seizures may happen as a single jerk or they can ... Our expert advisors can help you with any questions you might have about epilepsy first aid or anything else related to living with ...

Full details of the evidence and the committee's discussion are in evidence review J: effectiveness of antiseizure therapies in the treatment of idiopathic generalised epilepsies, including juvenile ...