Monitoring patients with severe epilepsy in residential care facilities during the night was associated with a much lower rate of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP), a new study found. "Our ...
‘A vicious cycle’ is the way investigators describe the bidirectional relationship between sleep problems and epilepsy in a recent review article in Archives of Disease in Childhood. 1 "Epilepsy is ...
New guidelines on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) recommend ways to reduce SUDEP risk and advise neurologists on how to counsel patients and families. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures ...
If you have a first seizure as an adult, it could be an indication of epilepsy, or it may be an isolated episode. Causes in adults include a stroke, head trauma, alcohol withdrawal, brain tumor, or ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Monitors that continuously measure sugar levels under the skin can alert diabetics when levels fall too low during sleep and awaken them before a seizure occurs, according ...