Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Key Takeaways New-onset adult seizures may be due to stroke, high blood sugar, alcohol ...

Some people with epilepsy experience delusions, hallucinations, paranoia and confusion after a seizure. While these episodes ...

Provoked seizures are not considered to be epilepsy, which is defined as two or more unprovoked seizures, and provoked seizures typically do not require long-term treatment with antiseizure medication ...

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent, unprovoked seizures that can significantly affect ...

Doctors have long known that changes in body temperature can affect seizure activity. Fever can trigger seizures in some ...

A subtle type of seizure goes undetected two-thirds of the time in pediatric emergency departments, a new study shows. The work focuses on "nonmotor" seizures, which cause children to "zone out" and ...

In a study designed to better understand sudden, unexpected deaths in young children, which usually occur during sleep, researchers have identified brief seizures, accompanied by muscle convulsions, ...

A Rutgers researcher has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify the ...

ST. LOUIS – An epilepsy diagnosis can come at any age. Epilepsy is a condition that causes unprovoked, recurrent seizures. Epilepsy affects patients differently. Some patients diagnosed with epilepsy ...

Veterans with difficult-to-treat epilepsy have a new surgical option in the VA health system after Houston doctors performed ...