When epileptic patients suffer seizures, their brain is undergoing repetitive and excessive neuronal firing. But what triggers this has stumped scientists for years. Now, researchers have used ...

Epilepsy, where patients suffer from unexpected seizures, affects roughly 1% of the population. These seizures often involve ...

Biomedical engineer Rachel Lance says British scientists submitted themselves to experiments that would be considered wildly ...

Expert opinion from Marcelle Freire Doctor of Medicine · 3 years of experience · Brazil Epilepsy is a disease characterized ...

One in every 4 people who are newly diagnosed with epilepsy is over the age of 65. This page gives an overview of the condition for people diagnosed later in life. Electrical activity is happening in ...

Lacosamide is a novel anticonvulsant with many attractive properties. It has a favorable pharmacokinetic profile that includes low protein binding, a relatively long half-life allowing for twice ...

Therefore, onset of action of LCM was retrospectively evaluated by analyzing the change in seizure frequency during the initial weeks of actual LCM exposure, utilizing the ANCOVA model described ...

A new 16-week study of 204 adult epilepsy patients found that 98% of participants believe that all patients with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan (SAP), regardless of seizure status.

Strokes and seizures can have similar symptoms, such as confusion, falling to the side, and not responding. A stroke often occurs suddenly, while seizures may have a warning phase. A stroke and a ...

Lyrica (pregabalin) and gabapentin are both prescribed for partial onset seizures and nerve pain that occurs after shingles. Doctors also prescribe Lyrica for other uses. Lyrica is a brand-name ...

To support this perspective, we begin by reviewing case study evidence of radiological signals in the claustrum of new-onset seizure patients with acute encephalopathies. Subsequently, we turn to ...