What causes severe early infant epilepsy? Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden believe that mutations in the gene encoding the protein KCC2 might be ...

Epilepsy is a medical condition that produces seizures, or a brief, strong surge of electricity in the brain that lasts a minute or two, or more. When a person has two or more unprovoked seizures, ...

Researchers may finally have a better explanation for epilepsy, chronic pain and other conditions of the nervous system that have baffled the scientific world for decades. Neurons are the most basic ...

The brain reinforces seizure networks during post-seizure sleep by hijacking the same mechanisms used for memory consolidation.

Epilepsy is the third most common neurological disorder in the United States, after Alzheimer's disease and stroke. Nearly 3 million Americans have the condition, and 200,000 new cases are diagnosed ...

Autoimmune antibodies are present in a significant proportion of patients with unexplained epilepsy, according to a new prospective study published in JAMA Neurology. The findings suggest that some ...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A common gene that can cause abnormal heart rhythms can also trigger epileptic seizures in the brain and may explain the sudden, unexplained deaths that often occur in people with ...

SPARTA — Explaining electrical activity in the brain to a child is no easy task. But, Jack Dau, a 14-year-old from Sparta, is doing just that so children who have epilepsy like him can understand the ...

ALBANY — Ever since Nova Buyce was diagnosed with epilepsy at 17 months old, big sisters Ila and Willow have kept a watchful eye on their sibling. Nova, who entered preschool at Albany's New Scotland ...