Epilepsy News

In addition to the medical treatment, making healthier life choices and manage stress, limit alcohol and avoid smoking cigarettes. Read expert insights on how epileptic seizures are triggered, scroll down.  

International Epilepsy Day 2024 highlights the significance of education, awareness, and support in empowering individuals with epilepsy to pursue fulfilling lives and the ongoing need to enhance treatment options.

India observes National Epilepsy Day on November 17 every year Epilepsy changes its forms and associations across ages Epilepsy is a condition which affects the brain, thus leading to seizures

At a recent event, Fatima was seen emphasizing and discussing epilepsy in order to dispel the stigma and myths associated with this neurological condition. 

The study reveals people with epilepsy who had no other diseases or health concerns had a 161 percent increased risk of death.

Fatima Sana Shaikh latest news: She will be seen in 'Dhak Dhak', directed and co-written by Tarun Dudeja, and co-produced by Taapsee Pannu, Pranjal Khandhdiya and Ayush Maheshwari. 

National Institute of Health has discovered how a set of high-frequency brain waves may help us spot differences between the past and the present. The study shows how the human brain uses certain neural activity patterns to compare our expectations with the present. These results will help us better understand how the brain portrays reality under healthy and disease conditions

Adelaide suffered her first seizure at the about very young age of 7 months and thereafter was diagnosed with Infantile Spasms, reported People magazine.

The manner of death was certified as natural. Boyce's family previously revealed that he passed away after having a seizure in his sleep, which was a result of an ongoing condition for which he was being treated for.

The Thirst Project aims to provide clean drinking water and wells throughout Africa. The charity honoured Boyce with the Pioneering Spirit Award at the 9th Annual Thirst Gala last April for raising over $30,000 for the Thirst Project and helping to build two new wells in Swaziland. 

Anti-epileptic drugs are the main type of treatment for most people with epilepsy that aims to stop seizures from happening. 

Epilepsy, a chronic non-communicable condition, is a brain disorder that can affect a person of any age.  

Annalise Lujan with a rare form of epilepsy has been cured from the life-threatening seizures after doctors treated her with cannabis oil.

The Dravet syndrome is a complex childhood epilepsy disorder that is associated with drug-resistant seizures and a high mortality rate.  

The results showed that the risk of epilepsy increased by 11 percent in children of overweight mothers (BMI of 25 to less than 30) compared with children and normal-weight mothers.

A new study has found that stressful events such as the war, trauma or natural disaster, or the death of a loved one, may trigger seizures for the people suffering with epilepsy.

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions, associated with abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

Using the Apple Watch app - known as EpiWatch - researchers observed that stress and lack of sleep are the reasons for seizures in people with epilepsy.

Epilepsy is a common type of disorder in which nerve cell activity in the brain is disturbed, causing repeated seizures. 

A great proportion of the causes of death related to epilepsy in low and middle-income countries, such as falls, drowning, burns and prolonged seizures, are potentially preventable, the WHO said.