Introduction The UK ambulance service often attends to suspected seizures. Most persons attended to will not require the facilities of a hospital emergency department (ED) and so should be managed at ...

Researchers in Adelaide are looking to expand newborn heel-prick screening to help identify up to 600 additional genetic ...

The rare stress-induced heart condition has been observed primarily in women, but a study published in May found that the ...

Epilepsy, a complex neurological condition marked by recurring seizures, is increasingly recognized for its intricate relationship with mitochondria, the cellular powerhouses responsible for energy ...

In an ESPN interview, Barber described the incident, suspected to be a pseudo-seizure linked to her autonomic nervous system, but noted that no definitive answers have been found. She expressed ...

Several neurological disorders can cause a first-time seizure in adults or instigate epilepsy (a condition of recurrent seizures). In a seizure, erratic electrical activity in the brain causes a ...

These findings pave the way for research into and development of causal therapies that could go beyond the purely anti-seizure effect.The results have been published in The Journal of Neuroscience ...

But that all changed when, on February 18, Glenn had a sudden, debilitating seizure at home in the English city of Southampton. He'd just gotten up that morning and started to put his bathrobe on ...

Summary: A large new study finds that epileptic seizures are significantly more common in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) than previously believed. In some cases, seizures occurred up to ...

After adjustment for demographic and health variables, hazard ratio was 1.94 for individuals with epilepsy and sleep deprivation. HealthDay News — Older adults with sleep deprivation and ...