Seizures can affect your daily life and well-being. Certain medicines can help lower the risk of having seizures, which can help manage your condition. Fycompa is a medicine used to manage ...

1. One of the best home remedies for epilepsy is pumpkin. The nutrients found in it help balance brain neurotransmitters, reducing the severity of seizures. While pumpkin can be cooked, drinking its ...

Epilepsy is among the most common neurological conditions, marked by unpredictable seizures, accidents and injuries, reduced quality of life, stigma and-in the worst case-premature death. But a ...

How Does Epidiolex Work for Seizures? Seizures are caused by sudden electrical activity changes in the brain. These changes are temporary but result in changes in movement, behavior, sensation, or ...

Historically, seizure action plans have focused on certain high-risk groups—such as people with drug-resistant epilepsy and people with a history of status epilepticus or seizure clusters. Neurology ...

A new guideline by the American Academy of Neurology says psychological interventions are possibly effective in helping people achieve freedom from functional seizures. Functional seizures, previously ...

Organized in 1986, the UAB Epilepsy Center is an effort of the Department of Neurology in conjunction with UAB Hospital to offer clinical, research, and education services to patients with epilepsy.

ATLANTA, June 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- UCB, a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that Epilepsia published findings from a comprehensive scoping review examining the efficacy of FINTEPLA ...

Since 1983, eight new AEDs have been introduced (see Table 2 below). Sadly, a recent VA study of more than 21,000 subjects aged 65 years and older revealed that 80% were being treated with ...

Patients with functional seizures had an approximately twofold higher risk for mortality than people without seizure disorders even after controlling for mental and physical health comorbidities; ...