New evidence supports previous data indicating that stress is a significant trigger of seizures in people with epilepsy. Experts encourage the use of stress management strategies as adjunctive care ...

Emotions play a strong role in everyday life, and they may even be a cause of seizures for some people, according to ongoing ASU research. ASU researchers have been looking at the relationship between ...

If you’re familiar with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, or PNES, you may be aware that proper treatment is crucial for obtaining relief. Unlike epileptic seizures, which result from brief ...

I was very confused and scared. I was 19 years old and never had a seizure before. I didn’t even know what epilepsy was and so my parents and I went and saw a neurologist. The first thing he asked us ...

Adolescents with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) experience severe bullying by fellow students and school staff alike, results of a small study suggest.\ The school experience of teens with ...

Scientists have discovered a neurological origin for absence seizures -- a type of seizure characterized by very short periods of lost consciousness in which people appear to stare blankly at nothing.