Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have discovered higher levels of immune proteins in the blood before and after an epileptic seizure. The possible biomarkers can be identified using a simple ...

Analysing 'rogue brainwaves' in people with epilepsy could help doctors better treat patients needing brain surgery. A new test, developed by a team of scientists and doctors from the Aston Brain ...

One of the worst things about epilepsy is its unpredictability. There is no way of knowing when those who struggle with the condition will have a seizure, nor any way to prepare for one. Or, at least, ...

A seizure is a medical condition that causes abnormal activity and/or body movements after a sudden and uncontrolled disturbance in your brain. Most people associate seizures with a condition called ...

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Your seizure threshold is one factor that influences your likelihood of having a seizure. People with epilepsy tend to have a lower seizure threshold, meaning they’re more likely to have seizures.

Oregon paramedics will start testing a drug that could some day let people treat long, dangerous seizures even before an ambulance arrives. If the test works, it could give a new anti-seizure tool not ...

How Is a Temporal Lobe Seizure Diagnosed? If someone has a seizure for the first time, if a seizure lasts longer than 2 to 3 minutes, or if multiple seizures occur one after the other, take them 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 ...

If your child has a seizure, it's natural to have plenty of concerns about what exactly happened, why, and what comes next. There are treatments that can help, but a lot depends on the cause of the ...