When Hunter Bambino was 9 years old, his parents started noticing something strange in his behavior. "I would be trying to field the baseball and I would freeze. That led to a medical consultation in ...

Patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy often cycle through multiple medications as they seek relief from the seizures that disrupt their lives. Yet in many cases, these drugs offer little benefit, ...

Half of people with newly diagnosed epilepsy will become seizure-free with the first epilepsy drug they try. For the rest, it's try, try again: You switch epilepsy medications, adjust to side effects, ...

Ten to twenty percent of the patients admitted to the intensive care (ICU) after cardiac arrest and resuscitation shows signs of brain activity that appears like epilepsy. For a long time, it was ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sedalia – Diane Van Deren stares unshaken at the video on her television. About halfway through the moving local news profile of her, a snippet of video ...

Watching your child have their first seizure was probably one of the most frightening moments of your life. Finding out that your child has epilepsy may have been another one. The future may suddenly ...

In our Medical Myths series, we approach medical misinformation head on. Using expert insight and peer reviewed research to wrestle fact from fiction, MNT brings clarity to the myth riddled world of ...

Seizures have been described as irregular activity of the nerves in your brain, and sometimes these irregularities can become recurrent or chronic. When seizures become a consistent problem, this ...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a common side effect of epilepsy. But you can do plenty to reduce your ED symptoms while also managing epilepsy. Epilepsy is a condition that affects your brain and ...

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder in which the normal chemical and electrical activities between nerve cells in the brain, or neurons, become disturbed. This disturbance causes the neurons ...