If your child has a seizure, it's natural to have plenty of concerns about what exactly happened, why, and what comes next. There are treatments that can help, but a lot depends on the cause of the ...

HOUSTON — After 35 years, the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) has approved a new classification system for seizures. One of the main changes is that seizures formerly known as "simple ...

A seizure is a sudden change in the brain's normal electrical activity. During a seizure, brain cells "fire" uncontrollably at up to four times their normal rate, temporarily affecting the way a ...

Annie Brooks had been suffering for several years before being diagnosed with "invisible" epilepsy. Medically known as Simple, Absence and Complex Partial Seizures, her condition means she experiences ...

I am following a 12-year-old girl with a 4- to 5-year history of episodic severe periumbilical abdominal pain that is mostly spontaneously relieved after about 5-10 minutes. She experiences no ...

Epilepsy surgery has been shown to be an effective treatment for patients with intractable epilepsy. The only randomized controlled trial conducted in this setting to date found a dramatic advantage ...

When your child has a seizure, there are two main things your doctor wants to find out. The first is what type of seizure it was. The second is what caused it. Diagnosing a focal seizure, which used ...