The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has released its first guideline for the management of functional seizures, providing clinicians with timely recommendations on treating the commonly ...

What Is a Seizure and What Is Epilepsy? Seizures, abnormal movements or behavior due to unusual electrical activity in the brain, are a symptom of epilepsy. But not all people who appear to have ...

Depression is a serious and frequent comorbidity of epilepsy and other neurological conditions. Here, we review recent studies on the relationship between epilepsy and depression with regard to ...

Seizures are individual events, and seizure disorders, also called epilepsy, are medical conditions that cause people to have a predisposition to seizures. A seizure is a sudden experience that can ...

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a type of epilepsy that starts in childhood or the teen years. People who have it wake up from sleep with quick, jerking movements of their arms and legs. These ...

In some cases, seasonal allergies can increase a person’s risk of having a seizure. Some research suggests a connection between allergic diseases and epilepsy. Seasonal allergies, also known as ...

What happens during an epileptic seizure? A recent study suggests that seizures occur after certain defense cells in the brain break down. Epileptic seizures can happen to anyone. In Norway alone, 35 ...

About 8 to 10 percent of people will have a seizure during their lifetime, but that doesn’t mean they have epilepsy. Many of those people never have another seizure. (1) One study followed people who ...