The unpredictable, debilitating nature of a seizure can be frightening, for both the person experiencing it and any loved ones watching nearby. In that moment, control often slips away as muscles ...
Recognizing what a seizure looks like — and what to do in the moment — is essential, because many seizures are subtle and do ...
"First thing is safety. Lower them to the ground, turn them to the side so they don't choke and time the seizure. If it goes ...
Absence seizures, common in children, present as brief lapses in awareness, often mistaken for daydreaming. These non-convulsive seizures involve star ...
Taylor Hyma's journey from enduring drug-resistant epilepsy to becoming seizure-free after brain surgery highlights hope and ...
Seeing someone around you collapse and start shaking can be scary, but knowing what to do in these crucial situations can save a life.
To help neurologists, mental health clinicians and other clinicians determine the best ways to help people manage functional seizures, the American Academy of Neurology has issued a new guideline, ...
Eight kids were taken to hospitals after they began exhibiting seizure-like symptoms during a performance by a Paris-based youth choir at a Cambridge church Tuesday night, according to the city’s fire ...
To help scientists learn more about epilepsy, Alan Song has used a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to build a new software package that displays brain activity data for epilepsy in a ...