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 ...

Epilepsy isn't always easy to diagnose. Seizures often don't occur during routine brain-wave recordings (EEGs), leaving ...

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An EEG test measures brain activity to help diagnose conditions like epilepsy and sleep disorders. EEG is part of a sleep study to diagnose issues like sleep apnea and narcolepsy. EEG can help ...

If you can’t find your BitLocker recovery key, this post will help you. BitLocker is a volume encryption feature in Windows that lets you encrypt an entire volume to protect your data. It provides a ...

Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes repeated episodes of unprovoked seizures. There is no cure for epilepsy, but medications may help keep symptoms under control. Epilepsy is almost always ...

HUDSONVILLE, Mich. — For years, Taylor Hyma felt like something was missing. A symptom here, a moment there, a puzzle no one could solve. "I was actually 18 when all of this started, and it was kind ...

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, ...

What Is a Seizure and What Is Epilepsy? Seizures, abnormal movements or behavior due to unusual electrical activity in the brain, are a symptom of epilepsy. But not all people who appear to have ...

Optogenetics employs a harmless virus to deliver light-sensitive genes to a particular set of neurons in the brain that can then be switched on and off with pulses of light. In a first, UC researchers ...

Despite what people may tell you, changing behavior is easy. It’s maintaining change that’s hard—creating new and sustained ways of thinking and behaving. As Mark Twain quipped, “Quitting [smoking] is ...

More than a decade after her original diagnosis, she suddenly had episodes of losing consciousness. Was this a different type of seizure? By Lisa Sanders, M.D. “I’m feeling a little stroke-y,” the ...