Epilepsy is a neurological condition characterized by the tendency to have seizures. It is a condition that demands consistent medical care, including routine visits to healthcare providers, ...

New AAN guidance examines how consumer wearable devices can support neurologic care, including epilepsy monitoring and sleep ...

Researchers have demonstrated that individuals who had childhood epilepsy have an increased accumulation of brain amyloid later in life, potentially predisposing them to late-onset brain amyloid ...

Epileptic seizures alter sleep by prolonging the stage that's central to memory formation, potentially predisposing the brain to "remember" how to trigger subsequent seizures more easily, a small ...

According to a recent study, in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), epileptic seizures are significantly more common than previously known. The discovery deepens understanding of the symptoms ...

A new review examines how ketogenic diets influence the brain’s metabolism to reduce seizures, while also revealing major gaps in clinical research. A new review published in The Lancet Neurology look ...

A new experimental drug is showing remarkable promise for children with Dravet syndrome, a severe genetic form of epilepsy.

Valproate (Depakene) emerged as the best first-line choice for generalized epilepsy in a pragmatic study and lamotrigine (Lamictal) as the best first-line treatment for focal epilepsy, British ...

Despite trying antidepressants and CBT, the “panic” episodes only worsened, especially in the three years before the test.

Patients with epilepsy may report less than half of their seizures to clinicians, according to survey results presented online as part of the 2020 American Academy of Neurology Science Highlights.

Elisa Hertzan is the executive director of the Epilepsy Foundation of Middle and West Tennessee. “I’m calling about my grandson, Logan,” said caller Anne Woods. “He’s 22, has epilepsy and is on a bus ...