A novel Kv7 potassium channel opener, may offer a unique treatment option for patients with resistant focal onset seizures.

To help neurologists, mental health clinicians and other clinicians determine the best ways to help people manage functional seizures, the American Academy of Neurology has issued a new guideline, ...

People with epilepsy are at risk for hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and hyperlipidemia; they also have an elevated risk ...

Their story made news around the world: a teen taken into state custody. His mother and stepfather arrested. All because he smoked pot to treat his debilitating seizures. In Georgia, patients with ...

New options in use or under development include devices and gene and cell therapies aimed at resetting or rehabilitating the brain circuits that cause seizures. Dreamstime/TNS PHOENIX — Medication has ...

Doctors diagnosed Finley with epilepsy. No one else in the Mullen family has the seizure disorder, and Ashley and Will worked to learn as much as possible about it and document Finley’s ...

People with depression have a more than doubled risk of developing epilepsy, and the mental illness also makes epilepsy more ...

NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL EPILEPSY AWARENESS MONTH. IT’S AN UNDIAGNOSED AND AND UNDERDIAGNOSED ISSUE THAT CAN AFFECT ANYONE AND RESULT IN A LIFELONG STRUGGLE. JOINING ME THIS MORNING WITH MORE ON THE ...

A drug typically prescribed for arthritis halts brain-damaging seizures in mice that have a condition like epilepsy, according to researchers. If the drug proves viable for human patients, it would be ...

Three-year-old had 1,000 seizures a day. Now, she only has a handful, mom says. Addyson Benton, a 3-year-old girl who has epileptic seizures has made a dramatic improvement since moving to Colorado to ...

Co-workers at WOOD-TV performed CPR after "eightWest" co-host Tom Hillen suffered a seizure and stopped breathing.

While anti-seizure medications are the first line of treatment, they don't work for about one-third of people living with epilepsy. Surgery to remove the area of the brain responsible for seizures has ...