Although several drugs in wide use at the present time benefit the majority of patients with petit-mal seizures the seizures of some patients are not controlled by commonly used medications; thus, in ...

The first time she had an epileptic seizure, Tina Hileman didn't know what was happening to her body. The then high school sophomore said she felt strange, nauseated and spaced out. "I can't explain ...

In a three-way test, a 50-year-old drug has edged out two newer ones for treatment of a kind of epilepsy that causes children to gaze off into space. The new study provides much-needed data for ...

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Editor’s note: Amber Brady of Shady Spring has suffered from epileptic seizures for most of her life. She had her first petit mal and grand mal seizures while in elementary school. Now, the ...

Patients were seen by one of us, either as clinic or as office patients in the Seizure Unit of the Children's Medical Center in Boston. The series, like that of Doyle, Livingston and Pearson, 9 is ...

About 150,000 new cases of epilepsy are confirmed in the U.S. each year. But the cause of epilepsy – a neurological condition that causes seizures – remains unknown for 6 out of 10 people. Scientists ...