While generalized seizures cause convulsions, epilepsy includes other types like absence seizures (brief awareness lapses), ...

Investigators in the laboratory of Gemma Carvill, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology Division of Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology, have discovered novel ...

This article explores persistent myths and media-driven misconceptions. Myth 1: Epilepsy Is Rare Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting 1 in 100 people (Epilepsy ...

UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals’ Epidiolex looks on course for approval in the US, after a panel of FDA experts unanimously backed it as a treatment for two rare forms of epilepsy. The FDA's ...

Purple Day, the international epilepsy awareness day, is today and it encourages people to wear purple and engage in ...

LGS is a rare and severe form of epilepsy that starts in early childhood and is resistant to many treatments. It is thought that around 1-2% of the 60,000 children in England with epilepsy have LGS.

(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) A team of researchers has developed a new gene therapy for children with Dravet syndrome -- a rare type of epilepsy in children. Dravet syndrome (DS ...

Jessica Aber, the former US attorney who was found dead in her Virginia home Saturday at age 43, suffered from epilepsy, her ...

Fahr's disease, first described by Karl Theodor Fahr in 1930, refers to sporadic or familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification that is associated with many neurological and psychiatric ...

In a groundbreaking advancement for families grappling with the challenges of Dravet syndrome, a rare and life-altering form ...

Saniona (OMX: SANION), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announces the initiation of scale-up and manufacturing of toxicology batches for SAN2219, advancing the program toward clinical ...