Although several drugs in wide use at the present time benefit the majority of patients with petit-mal seizures the seizures of some patients are not controlled by commonly used medications; thus, in ...

Patients were seen by one of us, either as clinic or as office patients in the Seizure Unit of the Children's Medical Center in Boston. The series, like that of Doyle, Livingston and Pearson, 9 is ...

About 150,000 new cases of epilepsy are confirmed in the U.S. each year. But the cause of epilepsy – a neurological condition that causes seizures – remains unknown for 6 out of 10 people. Scientists ...

In a three-way test, a 50-year-old drug has edged out two newer ones for treatment of a kind of epilepsy that causes children to gaze off into space. The new study provides much-needed data for ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Dear Dr. Donohue — My daughter, age 7, began to have brief attacks where she appeared to be in another world. They didn't last ...

Absence seizures, common in children, present as brief lapses in awareness, often mistaken for daydreaming. These ...

A seizure occurs when there is abnormal electrical activity in the brain. There are different types of seizures depending on where and how much brain activity is affected. If someone is seizing make ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Yesterday, my right hand started shaking uncontrollably. It did not stop for two hours. My left hand has had issues for years, shaking mostly when reading the paper or holding ...

Your 3-year-old son has become emotionally upset following a tussle with his older sister over a favorite toy. Suddenly, he starts holding his breath, turns very pale and goes into convulsions.

HAUGHTON, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Brent and Chrissie McWilliams of Haughton were married for a year when he began having silent seizures. “It took a year for doctors to diagnose him with epilepsy,” said ...