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Absence Seizure

Absence Seizure

Absence seizure (petit mal epilepsy) involves sudden lapse in consciousness and staring blankly into space, the episodes lasting less than 15 seconds.

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Risks of Epilepsy Drug in Pregnancy: To Use or Not to Use? EU Debates

Risks of Epilepsy Drug in Pregnancy: To Use or Not to Use? EU Debates

Epilepsy drug valproate is an effective treatment for epilepsy but using it during pregnancy carries a risk of physical abnormalities and developmental problems like autism in babies. Resear...

Promising New Treatment for Severe Epilepsy

Promising New Treatment for Severe Epilepsy

A new method to reduce the epileptic activity in the specific areas of the brain and nerve cells by using chemogenetics was discovered by a team of researchers at Lund University in Sweden. ...

People With Epilepsy are at Increased Risk of Dying

People With Epilepsy are at Increased Risk of Dying

In England and Wales, people with epilepsy were found to be at an increased risk of dying, especially from suicide and accidents, reveals a new study. Though the risks of dying unnatura...

First Large Survey on Epilepsy Conducted

First Large Survey on Epilepsy Conducted

An international research with multicentric approach analyzed more than 3,800 volunteers employing neuroimaging techniques in search of anatomical alterations specific to each epilepsy subty...

Silent Seizures can be Detected by Brain Stethoscope

Silent Seizures can be Detected by Brain Stethoscope

Stethoscope is diagnostic tool used by doctors or nurses to detect if there is any change in the heart, lungs and stomach. In order to detect changes that occur in the brain, Stanford neurol...

Mutations that cause Severe Infant Epilepsy Identified

Mutations that cause Severe Infant Epilepsy Identified

A missing mutation in severe infant epilepsy has been identified that triggers brain-damaging electrical signaling leading to seizures. Scientists also found early indications that ...

New Targets for Epilepsy Treatment can be Identified

New Targets for Epilepsy Treatment can be Identified

New analysis can identify genes that cause infantile spasms, which could help develop new targets for treatment, reveals a new study. In a new approach to precision medicine research, s...

Commonly Prescribed Drug Effectively Treats Infants with Epilepsy

Commonly Prescribed Drug Effectively Treats Infants with Epilepsy

Most commonly prescribed drug levetiracetam is found to be more effective than phenobarbital to treat infants with nonsyndromic epilepsy, finds a research team. 40 percent of infants who rec...

New Discovery Breakthrough for Epilepsy Patients

New Discovery Breakthrough for Epilepsy Patients

Brain’s seizure onset zone (SOZ) in record time located by University of Houston biomedical engineer Nuri Ince. SOZ is the actual part of the brain that causes seizures, in patients with epi...

Seizure Drug can Help Treat Lewy Body Dementia

Seizure Drug can Help Treat Lewy Body Dementia

Seizure drug can effectively treat the movement symptoms in people with Lewy body dementia, reveals a new study. Lewy body dementia is the second most common neurodegenerative type of d...

Epilepsy Linked to Certain Physical Brain Structures

Epilepsy Linked to Certain Physical Brain Structures

Epilepsy involves differences in the physical structure of the brain. It is associated with thickness and volume differences in the grey matter of several brain regions , according to recen...

Mood Disorders may Share a Genetic Link With Epilepsy

Mood Disorders may Share a Genetic Link With Epilepsy

Mood disorders, including depression, are the most common comorbid conditions in individuals with epilepsy, but the cause remains unclear, reports study by research teams at Columbia Univers...

Changes in Brain Wave Patterns can Predict the Onset of Epilepsy

Changes in Brain Wave Patterns can Predict the Onset of Epilepsy

Specific brain wave changes can predict epileptic seizures in patients with brain injuries using EEG. Theta waves were the brain waves that were recorded. The findings of this study are furt...

Wristband Devices Improve Detection in Patients With Epilepsy

Wristband Devices Improve Detection in Patients With Epilepsy

New wristband devices have been developed that can improve the detection and characterization of seizures in epilepsy patients, reveals a new study. The new research was published in E...

Nerve Stimulation in Vagus Nerve Restores Consciousness in Man After 15 Years

Nerve Stimulation in Vagus Nerve Restores Consciousness in Man After 15 Years

An implant that stimulated the vagus nerve helped the 35-year old main to regain his consciousness after 15 years. The treatment challenges a widely-accepted view that there is no prosp...

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Absence Seizure

Absence Seizure

Absence seizure (petit mal epilepsy) involves sudden lapse in consciousness and staring blankly into space, the episodes lasting less than 15 seconds.

Quiz on Fits

Quiz on Fits

Fits or Seizures could happen due to a number of reasons. Not all fits qualify to being labeled as epilepsy. Fits manifest in various forms. Test your knowledge on fits by taking this ...

Epilepsy

Fits or convulsions or Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent, involuntary seizures and is described as a chronic neurological disorder

Absence Epilepsy on The Rise Among Children

Absence Epilepsy on The Rise Among Children

Absence Epilepsy accounts for 4 out of 50 people with epilepsy and is curable as most of the children suffering from the disease respond to treatment.

Childhood Epilepsy - Approach to a child with seizures

Childhood Epilepsy - Approach to a child with seizures

Epilepsy should be examined as a symptom of progressive brain damage and specific etiological groups like the following identified a neonate with neuro metabolic disorder.

Valproic Acid

Valproic Acid

Valporic acid is indicated for treatment of simple and complex absence seizures, mixed seizure types, myoclonic and generalized tonic-clonic seizures.

Epilepsy During Pregnancy

Epilepsy During Pregnancy

Seizures or epilepsy during pregnancy can be fatal for both the mother and child and needs urgent medical intervention. The reasons are often unknown.

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