WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Yorktown high schooler Jamie Van Cleave had her first seizure when she was 7 years old. "It's really scary because you don't know what's going on and you know you're going to have ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

The timing of epileptic seizures may be linked to natural circadian rhythms, which may help to guide future treatment options, new research suggests. In what is believed to be the largest study of ...

Asking patients with focal epilepsy (also known as partial seizures, which usually involve focal areas of the body and altered consciousness) how often they have seizures does not appear to provide an ...

Objective: To compare the management of first afebrile seizures with internationally recognized standards in an Irish tertiary paediatric setting. Methods: Records of first afebrile seizure presenting ...

Researchers in Australia have shown for the first time in humans that epileptic seizures can be predicted by an implantable device measuring electroencephalography (EEG) patterns. They suggest that ...