Mar. 23 -- THURSDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- In patients with focal epilepsy, simply asking how often they have seizures doesn't provide a true count of their seizure frequency, German research ...

Epilepsy, or a seizure disorder, is a medical condition in which there are periods of abnormal electrical brain activity. Seizures can cause a temporary change in a person’s physical behavior or ...

Asking patients with focal epilepsy (also known as partial seizures, which usually involve focal areas of the body and altered consciousness) how often they have seizures does not appear to provide an ...

This is an epilepsy that is idiopathic and typically begins in children between 3 and 13 years of age. Most commonly it starts before onset of puberty. There are simple partial seizures that involve ...

Most people think of someone falling to the ground and shaking uncontrollably when they hear the word “seizure.” That type of seizure, called a generalized tonic-clonic seizure, is scary to witness ...

A seizure is a sudden change in the brain's normal electrical activity. During a seizure, brain cells "fire" uncontrollably at up to four times their normal rate, temporarily affecting the way a ...

There are two main types, partial and general. Partial seizures: Start in and affect just one part of the brain. During a simple partial seizure the person is awake and aware of what is happening. A ...

Dec. 10, 2003 (Boston) — A multicenter team with the Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Study of late-onset epilepsy reports that clinicians often do not recognize the onset of seizures in elderly ...

I am following a 12-year-old girl with a 4- to 5-year history of episodic severe periumbilical abdominal pain that is mostly spontaneously relieved after about 5-10 minutes. She experiences no ...

Updates to a 1980s classification system of epilepsies and seizure types, which identify several types of seizure not captured in the previous version, are expected to allow more fully informed ...