Mothers of new-born babies are always concerned about their child’s healthcare. My interactions with them as I shared about epilepsy got them asking questions relating to seizures in infants and ...

By mutating genes in these so-called organoids, Bateup and her Berkeley team have now discovered a source of seizures in children with one of the most common forms of early-onset epilepsy — and have ...

If you or a loved one has experienced a seizure, you know how scary they can be. The uncontrolled jolting, stiffening of the body, and even loss of consciousness can be unnerving under the best of ...

An eight-month-old boy has become the first person to receive a new type of treatment for an extremely rare form of epilepsy. Bohdi was born with KCNT1-related catastrophic epilepsy, an often-fatal ...

Epilepsy is a condition where there is unusual electrical activity in your brain, resulting in seizures. Sudden, involuntary movements like jerking or twitching in your arms or legs may be seizures.

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 ...