The unpredictable, debilitating nature of a seizure can be frightening, for both the person experiencing it and anyone watching nearby. In that moment, control often slips away as muscles stiffen, ...

Functional seizures are a type of functional neurological disorder, or FND, that also goes by the name conversion disorder. It means “any neurological symptom incompatible with a known medical or ...

A new drug candidate has shown impressive results in a mid-stage clinical trial for drug-resistant epilepsy, raising hopes for patients who continue to suffer seizures despite being on multiple ...

Stress can cause seizures known as psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). PNES differ from neurological seizures with causes such as epilepsy. Learn about stress’s relationship to PNES, panic ...

Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that part ...

Writing for The Conversation (republished below), researchers Jaideep Kapur, director of the University of Virginia Brain Institute, and Anastasia Brodovskaya, a UVA postdoctoral fellow in neurology, ...

Individuals with Parkinson’s disease face a greater risk of experiencing seizures compared to those without the condition, and this risk is even higher if you already have other seizure-related ...

New Delhi: Actor Fatima Sana Shaikh has long been open about her battle with epilepsy, a neurological disorder she was diagnosed with during the filming of Dangal in 2016. In a recent interview on the ...

In 1994, a coalition of experts in brain health and epilepsy published a consensus statement on the appropriate criteria for driver licensing for people with epilepsy. Issued by the American Academy ...