Seizures tend to get progressively worse over time in people with epilepsy, and a new study in mice suggests why that might be the case. Seizures appear to prompt the brains of mice to produce ...

Experiencing one or two seizures is not a guarantee of epilepsy but could indicate something is going wrong. It is encouraged to tell a doctor when and what type of seizure occurred.

Experts say epilepsy can happen due to various reasons. The most common is genetic, but it can also result from brain strokes ...

Find 5 ways to prepare for sending your child to school for the first time. With planning, children with epilepsy can have a successful school year.

Channing Seideman, 30, of Ohio was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child. She still has daily epileptic seizures, but her service dog, Bishop, helps keep her safe. Fox News Digital spoke with her.

Epilepsy is one of the most common diseases affecting the nervous system and implies a predisposition to seizures. Per best estimates from CDC and WHO, there are 3.4 million people living with ...

National Epilepsy Month is observed every November. It's time to be more vocal about this disease and to erase the stigma surrounding it. My experience with my daughter taught me that.

Patients' number of days without seizures also increased, from 11 a month before to 15 a month after working with a seizure dog. "These findings show that seizure dogs can help people with ...

A team of epilepsy specialists at UC San Francisco has developed a method to predict 24-hour seizure risk. The discovery, which may be scalable to large numbers of patients, could help to improve the ...

Psychiatric conditions often co-occur with epilepsy and need simultaneous management. Emergency care for seizures typically starts with benzodiazepines per 2024 ACEP guidelines.

Epilepsy surgery might be considered if two or more anti-seizure medications (without significant side effects) are tried and don't stop the seizures, giving the condition the classification of ...

Kennady Schneider, now 19 and a senior at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, has a particularly difficult-to-treat form of epilepsy that has caused multiple seizures a day since she was 5.