Asking patients with focal epilepsy (also known as partial seizures, which usually involve focal areas of the body and altered consciousness) how often they have seizures does not appear to provide an ...

Pharmacotherapeutic issues associated with generic substitutions of antiseizure medications (ASM) may not only be the result of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approved bioequivalence ...

Developed under the guidance of epilepsy, neurology, pharmacy, and specialty nurse advisors, these patient support apps, now available in the Mobile Health Library (MHL) system, have been designed to ...

Like many teenagers, Danielle Holton's first car was a ticket to freedom. At age 17, she bought a used Hyundai wagon from her mom, paying for it with money from her job as a certified nursing ...

Seizure control may take time—often a year or more—but most patients achieve it, bringing new hope for life with epilepsy. For millions of people living with ...

EpiWatch, the first FDA-cleared seizure detection app for Apple Watch, provides seizure detection, alerting and ...

LOS ANGELES — The majority of women with epilepsy are inadequately educated about the potential risks associated with anti-seizure medications (ASMs), which include teratogenicity and a reduction in ...

The early diagnosis of seizures is one of the most critical steps in improving the quality of life for people with epilepsy especially children. When seizures are identified and treated at an early ...

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

Published today in The Lancet Neurology, a new review from the University of Colorado Anschutz in collaboration with UT Southwestern Medical Center, offers the latest scientific explanations for why ...

Patients were seen by one of us, either as clinic or as office patients in the Seizure Unit of the Children's Medical Center in Boston. The series, like that of Doyle, Livingston and Pearson, 9 is ...