While generalized seizures cause convulsions, epilepsy includes other types like absence seizures (brief awareness lapses), atonic seizures (muscle weakness), and focal seizures (sensory disturbances; ...

Epilepsy Always Involves Convulsions While generalized seizures cause convulsions, epilepsy includes other types like absence seizures (brief awareness lapses), atonic seizures (muscle weakness ...

Absence seizure causes a vacant stare which may be mistaken for a brief lapse in attention. The seizure lasts about 10 seconds though it may last as long as 30 seconds. There's no confusion ...

Raeley Shilling advocates for epilepsy awareness, sharing her personal experience with juvenile absence epilepsy in ...

"Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that has electrical sparks in your brain that are sending a regular electric, electrical sparks that are cause reoccurring seizures," said Kirk. She noted that ...

Researchers from the Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGIN) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have ...

Aaron Ritchie and carer Ceri John Jenkins died in the Leeds Canal in November 2023 - but it is unclear how they came to be in ...

An experienced care home support worker and a man with autism and epilepsy drowned together in a freezing canal in a double ...

“The theme for World Haemophilia Day 2025, ‘Access for All: Women and Girls Bleed Too’, highlights the need to raise ...

Carl Jenkins was looking after Aaron Ritchie, who had autism and epilepsy, when they both died after falling into the Leeds ...

Researchers from the Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGIN) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have completed a ...