WAKING groggily from a seizure, Kerry Tadgell, 35, from Kent, felt like she was trapped in a horrifying bubble. She wanted to ...

Objective: To determine the efficacy and tolerability of magnesium valproate as monotherapy in patients with partial or generalised epilepsy. Design and Setting: This was a nonblinded study ...

Familial epilepsy refers to cases where epilepsy runs in families suggesting a genetic component to the condition ...

An overjoyed mum, whose son has epilepsy and had up to 300 seizures a day before being prescribed cannabis, has campaigned ...

Nov. 30, 2023 — Slow waves that usually only occur in the brain during sleep are also present during wakefulness in people with epilepsy and may protect against increased brain excitability ...

The epilepsy medication sodium valproate is linked to developmental problems in fetuses, but lab studies may now have found a ...

On 26 March, people all over the UK will be wearing purple to help raise awareness and start conversations about epilepsy. Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition that can happen in anyone at ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) are working on a therapy that holds potential in treating patients with epilepsy, a neurological ...

Nov. 30, 2023 — Slow waves that usually only occur in the brain during sleep are also present during wakefulness in people with epilepsy and may protect against increased brain excitability ...

Grand mal is characterised by seizures in which there is a loss of consciousness and convulsive, rapid and generalised uncontrolled body jerks or movements. A child experiencing the Grand mal form of ...

Based on the point of origin of the brain's erratic signals, epilepsy is classified as either focal or generalised epilepsy. Focal epilepsy occurs when the erratic signals are confined to a ...

Generalised tonic-clonic seizures result in ... Orrin Devinsky, director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at NYU commented: "The FDA approval of the Embrace device to detect major convulsive ...