A traumatic brain injury (TBI), even a mild type, can lead to post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) up to a year after the head injury occurs, new research suggests. Results from a multicenter, prospective ...

Epilepsy is a disease marked by recurrent seizures, or sudden periods of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. One in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some ...

Asked to picture a seizure in action, what may come to mind is a person on the ground, eyes rolled backward and limbs jerking. This could describe a more dramatic epileptic seizure, but seizures can ...

The cortical grey matter of a mouse is depicted in this 3D reconstructed confocal image. Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC linked a subtype of atypical brain cells called ...

Individuals with focal onset epilepsy treated with azetukalner experienced sustained monthly seizure reduction and evidence of seizure freedom up to 48 months, according to data presented at the ...

When a high fever triggers seizures in a child, the experience can be very scary for the parents, but most of the time, the seizures will resolve on their own. Febrile seizures are convulsions that ...

Experiments show a strong relationship between changes in astrocytes after mild traumatic brain injury and the eventual occurrence of a seizure. Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute ...

HERMANTOWN — Lisa Peterson wasn’t diagnosed with epilepsy until she crashed her car into a Mesaba Avenue median on Dec. 17, 1996. That was her junior year at Superior Senior High School, but there had ...

In the last decade, mounting evidence has linked seizure-like activity in the brain to some of the cognitive decline seen in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Patients with Alzheimer's disease have ...

UNDATED HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo shows us how it has changed one man's life. It could be a major breakthrough for thousands of people who suffer with certain forms of Epilepsy. Six-year-old ...