Consultant Psychiatrist and Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority Dr Eugene Dordoye, has emphasised that epilepsy is a neurological condition, not a mental health disorder, in a bid ...

Epilepsy affects around 600,000 people in the UK. Using clips from EastEnders, Dr Xand explains the different types of seizure, the signs that can be easy to miss, and the simple steps to keep someone ...

When people think about epilepsy, dramatic scenes often come to mind. A person collapsing, shaking violently, or losing consciousness. Films and telev.

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions in the world, yet myths and misconceptions continue to surround it. In many societies, seizures are still wrongly linked to superstition or ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX)—An International Leaders of Texas (ILTexas) student with epilepsy orchestrated an idea called “Purple Out” to raise awareness about epilepsy and encourage companionship.

An insightful mini-review published in Genomic Psychiatry synthesizes the rapidly expanding landscape of molecular genetic research on common epilepsies, assembling evidence from genome-wide ...

Discover how ultra-early epilepsy surgeries transform the lives of children with drug-resistant seizures, preventing long-term brain damage.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A common gene that can cause abnormal heart rhythms can also trigger epileptic seizures in the brain and may explain the sudden, unexplained deaths that often occur in people with ...

A prominent epileptologist and neurologist, Prof. Patrick Adjei, who said this, pointed out that stigma had been one of the main drivers of the high treatment gap of the condition, urging that nobody ...

The Epilepsy Pathway Innovation in Africa (EPInA) project has revealed that between 80 and 90 per cent of persons living with epilepsy in Ghana ...

Many families face the challenge of drug-resistant epilepsy, questioning the transition from medication to surgery.