Epilepsy, or a seizure disorder, is a medical condition in which there are periods of abnormal electrical brain activity. Seizures can cause a temporary change in a person’s physical behavior or ...

Mar. 23 -- THURSDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- In patients with focal epilepsy, simply asking how often they have seizures doesn't provide a true count of their seizure frequency, German research ...

Asking patients with focal epilepsy (also known as partial seizures, which usually involve focal areas of the body and altered consciousness) how often they have seizures does not appear to provide an ...

Most people think of someone falling to the ground and shaking uncontrollably when they hear the word “seizure.” That type of seizure, called a generalized tonic-clonic seizure, is scary to witness ...

This is an epilepsy that is idiopathic and typically begins in children between 3 and 13 years of age. Most commonly it starts before onset of puberty. There are simple partial seizures that involve ...

Seizures may be of two main types, partial and generalized. There are four components of a seizure. Each of the four components are distinctly different and distinguished. Not all seizure types will ...

July 21, 2011 — Secondary generalized tonic clonic seizures (GTCSs) occur with almost a 30% greater frequency during anovulatory than during ovulatory phases of menstrual cycles, and women with these ...

Dec. 10, 2003 (Boston) — A multicenter team with the Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Study of late-onset epilepsy reports that clinicians often do not recognize the onset of seizures in elderly ...

A seizure is a sudden change in the brain's normal electrical activity. During a seizure, brain cells "fire" uncontrollably at up to four times their normal rate, temporarily affecting the way a ...

Epilepsy is a chronic condition wherein an individual suffers repeated seizures due to abnormal electrical signals that are produced by damaged brain cells. According to the World Health Organisation ...