A 30-year-old female, battling gelastic seizures since childhood, experienced a significant reduction in seizure frequency ...

Ellie Altman, an 18-year-old Texas Tech University freshman, suffered two concussions in less than a month that left her battling seizures, but after receiving treatment that retrained her brain, she ...

Giovanni Vitello, a 2-year-old from Cortland, is thriving after undergoing a rare laser brain surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital that freed him from daily seizures caused by tuberous sclerosis compl ...

A Fountain mother with epilepsy said she hasn’t had a seizure in about seven years, and attributes that to a therapy for ...

Vikram Rao, director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, discusses why a third of seizure patients don’t respond to medication and the promising new surgical and technological treatments available.

Study finds early surgery can cure epilepsy in children. March 12, 2013— -- Tom Parrent was home alone with his son 3-year-old Sam -- better known as "Spike" -- when after lunch the boy told his ...

On Sept. 18, the vaccine advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to change its ...

Absence seizure, formerly known as petit mal seizure, is a type of short seizure that usually causes a person to briefly lose focus, stare into space, and lose awareness of their surroundings. These ...

Breathing lapses after seizures may predict sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Keep reading to discover new clinical ...

Working with medically trained service dogs is associated with a 31% reduction in seizures compared with usual care in treatment-resistant epilepsy, a new study showed. Investigators speculate that ...