Asking patients with focal epilepsy (also known as partial seizures, which usually involve focal areas of the body and altered consciousness) how often they have seizures does not appear to provide an ...

Q: My neighbor’s son was just diagnosed with KCNT1 seizures, and they said it was a very rare disorder. Aren’t seizures fairly common in children? A: The brain has many nerve cells that communicate ...

About 60-70% of focal epilepsy patients achieve seizure control with first-line antiseizure medications (ASMs). Lamotrigine and levetiracetam demonstrate high efficacy and tolerability for seizure ...

Brussels (Belgium), 23rd July 2014 – 0700 (CEST) – regulated information – UCB today announced an important advance in its research and development pipeline with positive topline results from the ...

A study of the long-term effectiveness of the first direct brain responsive neurostimulator for partial onset, or focal, seizures that cannot be controlled with medication demonstrates that responsive ...

In people with epilepsy, partial seizures are also known as focal seizures. While focal seizures start in one part of the brain, generalized seizures start in both sides of the brain. Disclaimer: AAAS ...

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 ...

Updates to a 1980s classification system of epilepsies and seizure types, which identify several types of seizure not captured in the previous version, are expected to allow more fully informed ...

Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurologic disorder in the United States. Approximately 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy. 1 An estimated 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy in ...