Epileptic seizures alter sleep by prolonging the stage that's central to memory formation, potentially predisposing the brain to "remember" how to trigger subsequent seizures more easily, a small ...

If you see someone having a seizure or fit, there are some simple things you can do to help.

"They did a brain scan but said that nothing was wrong, and they told me that it's likely never to happen again," Isabella ...

The unpredictable, debilitating nature of a seizure can be frightening, for both the person experiencing it and anyone watching nearby. In that moment, control often slips away as muscles stiffen, ...

November is Epilepsy Awareness Month, when awareness is raised for a condition that impacts nearly three million adults in the U.S.That's one percent of all adults, while nearly 500,000 kids in the ...

Imagine we could switch on bliss, the feeling that everything in your body and the world is completely, utterly … perfect. That might one day be possible, according to Fabienne Picard, a French Swiss ...

The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new ...

An estimated 3.4 million people in the United States live with epilepsy, a chronic neurological disorder in which abnormal electrical activity in the brain leads to recurrent seizures. Recognizing ...

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A neurologist shares her thoughts and research about “ecstatic epilepsy” in a wide-ranging conversation on how we perceive the world—and create the world we perceive Jo Marchant - Correspondent People ...