About 50 million people globally have epilepsy. Half of these are women. Until now, treatments for men and women have been identical. But men and women experience epilepsy differently. For women ...

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 ...

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.

Typically, seizures last 30 seconds to two minutes. If a person experiences multiple seizures in less than 24 hours, they can be medically recognized as having epilepsy. Canada detailed that when ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The prevalence of seizures while driving (SzWD) prior to diagnosis in people with focal epilepsy suggests how improved awareness and early intervention may reduce the burden of hospitalizations ...