Researchers are optimistic after early results showed that experimental drug treatment zorevunersen may significantly reduce the number of seizures in children with a rare and severe form of epilepsy.

In the Middle Ages, epilepsy was blamed on demonic possession. Centuries later, the superstition may be gone, but the stigma has proved far harder to shake. And it is children who often carry the ...

When a high fever triggers seizures in a child, the experience can be very scary for the parents, but most of the time, the seizures will resolve on their own. Febrile seizures are convulsions that ...

I was at university when I had my first seizure. One day, I went clothes shopping on my own. I was trying on a pair of jeans in the changing rooms at Topman when I collapsed. Somebody saw my legs go ...

“We had no idea she could die just like that,” James Hardwick said of his daughter Ellie ...

Younger adults with difficult-to-treat epilepsy may have early signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in their brain tissue, but it appears to be uncommon, according to a small, preliminary study.