Interest in the facilities, which aim to connect patients who experience seizures to early expert evaluation and diagnosis, has grown recently as wait times for neurology appointments, and especially epilepsy…
For many women, the childbearing years are the most profound including contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, and post-pregnancy. Each phase carries opportunities and challenges, and for women living with a chronic disease…
Women with epilepsy (WWE) are usually advised antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment even during pregnancy. It is therefore important to know what the major congenital malformation (MCM) risks might be with…
A UK teenager with severe epilepsy has become the first person in the world to be fitted with a brain implant aimed at bringing seizures under control. Read the article.
Nocturnal seizures are seizures that happen at night. They are caused by disruptions to sleep, which can lower your seizure threshold. Read the article.
“To see your kid — 7, 8 years old just collapsing on the floor and you don’t know if she’s gonna wake up or not,” Alex said. Medication stopped working…
In an analysis of more than 2 million patient records, researchers discovered that people taking angiotensin receptor blockers for high blood pressure were less likely to develop epilepsy. Read the…
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) and epileptic seizures often present with similar clinical manifestations, posing a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. Read the article.
High up in the hills of Barcelona, brain science start-up Neuroelectrics is developing therapies that it says will improve the lives of people living with brain disease. The group manufactures around…
Until now, treatments for men and women have been identical. But men and women experience epilepsy differently. Read the article.
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