Diagnosing epilepsy involves a review of your medical history. You may have neurological testing and blood tests done. Blood ...
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of focal epilepsy, affecting a significant proportion of patients who ...
“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 ...
More severe depressive symptoms are associated with greater cognitive burden in epilepsy, even after considering seizure and epileptiform abnormality frequencies and anti-seizure medication burden.
Tripp has been diagnosed with generalized epilepsy, a disorder that causes daily seizures. “We met this woman and talked to her and her seizure-alert dog,” Shauna said. Seizure-alert dogs are ...
Signs of epilepsy vary according to the condition, and it doesn’t always involve loss of consciousness or shaking of the ...
For months, the parents of 12-year-old Rahul were puzzled by his strange behavior at the dinner table. He would suddenly stop eating, stare blankly, twitch his lips, and rest his head on the table, ...
An FDA-cleared wrist-worn device reliably detects convulsive seizures in epilepsy monitoring units but can miss focal ...