Electroencephalography (EEG) remains the cornerstone for the diagnosis and classification of genetic generalised epilepsy syndromes, which encompass childhood absence epilepsy, juvenile absence ...

Generalized epilepsy has traditionally been considered a seizure of the "'whole brain.'" However, new research has challenged this longstanding idea, since carefully targeting specific brain areas ...

Symptoms consistent with focal seizures are often reported by patients who have idiopathic generalised epilepsies (IGE) and are associated with a short duration of freedom from seizures, say ...

Seizures may be of two main types, partial and generalized. There are four components of a seizure. Each of the four components are distinctly different and distinguished. Not all seizure types will ...

Researchers used a rodent model to discover that shifting the firing pattern of a particular set of brain cells is all it takes to initiate, or to terminate, an absence seizure. A particular structure ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cavion, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics for neurological diseases, announced today that their first ...

Valproate (Depakene) emerged as the best first-line choice for generalized epilepsy in a pragmatic study and lamotrigine (Lamictal) as the best first-line treatment for focal epilepsy, British ...

Since 1983, eight new AEDs have been introduced (see Table 2 below). Sadly, a recent VA study of more than 21,000 subjects aged 65 years and older revealed that 80% were being treated with ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology company, today announced that 24-month data on generalized tonic-clonic (GTC) seizures in people with ...

Seizures occur when the normal electrical activity in your brain is disrupted. This can lead to symptoms like unconsciousness, uncontrollable shaking, or lip-smacking. Your symptoms largely depend on ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders worldwide, affecting around 50 million people, yet in South Africa it remains underdiagnosed, misunderstood and severely stigmatised. Seeing a ...