Provoked seizures are not considered to be epilepsy, which is defined as two or more unprovoked seizures, and provoked seizures typically do not require long-term treatment with antiseizure medication ...

Medical attention is necessary only if the elder has a severe headache followed by a seizure. If there are signs of a stroke, such as difficulty with speech, loss of speech comprehension, loss of ...

Cayuga Medical Center’s Epilepsy Monitoring Unit recently welcomed a new director and an expanded program that operates each weekday with advanced neuroscience technology to evaluate adult patients.

Prior to being diagnosed with epilepsy, 5% of people with a type of epilepsy called focal epilepsy had a seizure while driving, according to a new study published in the June 7, 2023, online issue of ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 1 out of 10 people will have a seizure during their lifetime. Most of these seizures will be epileptic seizures, which are ...

This is the question families ask after years of seizures, hospital visits, missed school days, and job instability. Parents ask this for children who cannot attend classes regularly. Spouses ask this ...

“It’s all about the brain,” said Jennifer DeWolfe, D.O., professor in the UAB Department of Neurology. “Seizure manifestations are stereotyped, so the same symptoms occur with each seizure that ...

Viewers have been suspecting for much of this season that Dr. Al-Hashimi was suffering from some sort of neurological ...