When epileptic patients suffer seizures, their brain is undergoing repetitive and excessive neuronal firing. But what triggers this has stumped scientists for years. Now, researchers have used ...

“It’s all about the brain,” said Jennifer DeWolfe, D.O., professor in the UAB Department of Neurology. “Seizure manifestations are stereotyped, so the same symptoms occur with each seizure that ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — Certain musical elements within songs — especially when tied to emotional memories — may trigger a rare form of epilepsy known as musicogenic epilepsy, new research suggested The term ...

AI technology analyzes 24 hours of brain wave data in seconds, a task that takes trained specialists two hours to complete.

Autoimmune epilepsy is a newly defined group of conditions characterized by recurrent seizures associated with autoimmunity. Cancer and infections are two potential triggers. Epilepsy is a seizure ...

Nocturnal seizures often cause symptoms like spasms, grunting, and breathing difficulties while sleeping. Increasing sleep by 90 minutes can decrease your seizure risk by 27% over 48 hours.