I get tingling sensations throughout my body, and it feels like I am slowly being mentally separated from it. This feeling is ...

Remaining calm is important. Depending on seizure type, many people with epilepsy remain aware of their surroundings even as ...

In his latest column, Gordon reflects on his son Adam’s journey with epilepsy, the stigma surrounding the disorder, and the ...

It showed there was a series of events that tended to happen with SUDEP: a tonic-clonic seizure — where a person loses consciousness and has stiffening and jerking of the muscles — followed by ...

In his latest column, Gordon shares his family’s journey after his son Adam was diagnosed with epilepsy, reflecting on the ...

Stratford College student Sophie Hedley-Goggin joined the Herald for work experience this week and, by coincidence, it weas also the week she was launching the film she has made about her life and ...

Over the course of 3 weeks, she had experienced focal clonic and tonic seizures every 1–2 min, involving the left arm and the left side of her face, sometimes accompanied by impaired awareness ...

The fellows gain expertise in evaluating and treating focal seizures with or without impaired awareness, bilateral tonic-clonic seizures, neurological emergencies such at status epilepticus, primary ...

including ‘drop seizures’ which result in a loss of muscle tone and stiffening of muscles, and generalised tonic-clonic seizures, which involve muscle jerking and loss of consciousness.