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 ...

A new clinical trial co-led by researchers at FutureNeuro and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences is ...

According to a recent study, between 7 and 17 percent of all epilepsy-related deaths are due to a complication known as Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). Although SUDEP isn't well ...

ANCHOR: EPILEPSY CAN CAUSE RANDOM SEIZURES AND AFFECTS PEOPLE IN THE U.S. A MEDICAL PROCEDURE THATAS H GIVEN A YOUNG WOMAN WHOAS H GIVEN HER LIFE BK.AC ANCHOR: ADVANCES IN THE CONTROL OF SEIZURES HAVE ...

Dravet syndrome can affect sleep quality as well as other factors not directly related to epilepsy. Certain medications may be to blame for sleep disturbances in patients with DS. Poor sleep quality ...

Melbourne researchers test a new AI tool that detects tiny lesions in children with epilepsy, leading to surgeries that leave ...

John Olson, from Sun Prairie, loves the outdoors and a good challenge. Whether he is climbing up mountains or skiing down them, he doesn’t let his epilepsy stop him from doing what he loves.

Scientists have used a cannabis-based drug to reduce seizures in children with a rare form of epilepsy, according to a new study. The participants involved in the study had Dravet syndrome, a form of ...

YORKTOWN, Va. - Red emergency lights flickering on the driveway became an all too familiar sight for the Van Cleave family. Having upwards of eight seizures a night, sometimes a trip to the emergency ...

Micah Whitley, 16, remembers the time vividly. It was less than a year ago when his little brother, 9-year-old Brayden, was battling epilepsy and suffering through one seizure after another. That ...

James Franklin Jr. is a high school basketball player in Indiana who also happens to be epileptic. After he played in a game Friday night, a video went viral of a student from the opposing school ...