Electroencephalography (EEG) remains the cornerstone for the diagnosis and classification of genetic generalised epilepsy syndromes, which encompass childhood absence epilepsy, juvenile absence ...

Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy (IGE) affects 7.7 per 100,000 person/years in the United States 1, and represents 15% to 20% of all epilepsies 2. IGE is characterized by generalized tonic clonic (GTC) ...

Generalized epilepsy has traditionally been considered a seizure of the "'whole brain.'" However, new research has challenged this longstanding idea, since carefully targeting specific brain areas ...

Symptoms consistent with focal seizures are often reported by patients who have idiopathic generalised epilepsies (IGE) and are associated with a short duration of freedom from seizures, say ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in collaboration with AIIMS Rishikesh, have developed an algorithm that can help decode brain scans to identify the occurrence and type of ...

Absence seizure, formerly known as petit mal seizure, is a type of short seizure that usually causes a person to briefly lose focus, stare into space, and lose awareness of their surroundings. These ...

Researchers used a rodent model to discover that shifting the firing pattern of a particular set of brain cells is all it takes to initiate, or to terminate, an absence seizure. A particular structure ...

The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) has revised its classification of seizure types to improve nomenclature, add new seizure types, and give clinicians the ability to classify seizures ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cavion, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics for neurological diseases, announced today that their first ...

Epilepsy is not a curse, not a mental illness, not contagious. It is a medical condition deserving compassion. Across ...

Seizures occur when the normal electrical activity in your brain is disrupted. This can lead to symptoms like unconsciousness, uncontrollable shaking, or lip-smacking. Your symptoms largely depend on ...