These involve a loss of consciousness and muscle spasms. Focal seizures: Affecting just one side of the brain, simple focal seizures cause subtle symptoms such as a strange taste or smell ...

The uncontrolled thrashing raises their chances of getting hurt. Focal seizures are different; they start in one area on one side of the brain, so they may be less intense and usually last no more ...

A new global study has found genetic changes that may make individuals with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure ...

Epilepsy in babies should not be underestimated. If seizures occur frequently and continuously, it can affect the growth and ...

Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, finds a new global study led by researchers at UCL and UTHealth Houston.

During this time the frequency of the accompanying focal and tonic–clonic seizures varied from only a few simple focal motor and sensory seizures daily and a few complex focal seizures per week ...

For the first time, a research team in Bonn is systematically investigating the role of the dopamine system in a common form ...

The work highlights the importance of video-EEG in the correct evaluation of such patients, who might otherwise be misdiagnosed with focal epilepsy. Usui and co-workers used video-EEG in the ...