The symptoms you experience during a seizure will depend on the cause of your seizure and where it’s occurred in your brain. A partial onset seizure affects only a part of your brain. And there are ...

When you have epilepsy, there's a chance you might have an aura before you have a seizure. An aura is a feeling, experience, or movement that just seems different. It can also be a warning that a ...

The causes of focal onset seizures can include epilepsy, stroke, or low blood sugar. Other times, the causes are unknown. Medication can help prevent focal seizures. The human brain works by sending ...

If your child has a seizure, it's natural to have plenty of concerns about what exactly happened, why, and what comes next. There are treatments that can help, but a lot depends on the cause of the ...

This is an epilepsy that is idiopathic and typically begins in children between 3 and 13 years of age. Most commonly it starts before onset of puberty. There are simple partial seizures that involve ...

A seizure is a sudden change in the brain's normal electrical activity. During a seizure, brain cells "fire" uncontrollably at up to four times their normal rate, temporarily affecting the way a ...

Seizures may be of two main types, partial and generalized. There are four components of a seizure. Each of the four components are distinctly different and distinguished. Not all seizure types will ...

Most people think of someone falling to the ground and shaking uncontrollably when they hear the word “seizure.” That type of seizure, called a generalized tonic-clonic seizure, is scary to witness ...

July 21, 2011 — Secondary generalized tonic clonic seizures (GTCSs) occur with almost a 30% greater frequency during anovulatory than during ovulatory phases of menstrual cycles, and women with these ...

Mar. 23 -- THURSDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- In patients with focal epilepsy, simply asking how often they have seizures doesn't provide a true count of their seizure frequency, German research ...