From a specialized diet to rapid evaluation, there’s a lot to know about treating childhood epilepsy. We share the latest from experts at The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s. Parents ...

For parents, a child having a seizure is one of the most frightening experiences imaginable. While many childhood seizures are brief and isolated, others are more serious and persistent. To make the ...

Your child’s brain is an incredible electrical system. Billions of neurons firing in perfect harmony to create thoughts, movements, feelings, and memories. But sometimes, that delicate electrical ...

Children referred to a first seizure clinic (FSC) see a neurologist epilepsy specialist within one week, according to a study ...

A systematic review found that intermittent diazepam and continuous phenobarbitone reduce the recurrence of febrile seizures in children, but the drugs have mild-to-moderate adverse effects. Because ...

A dedicated pediatric “one-stop” First Seizure Clinic cuts wait times to under a week and enables earlier diagnoses, giving families faster answers and more streamlined care.

NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Apr 17 — The gamma knife is effective in medically intractable seizures with localized foci, according to a case series of 4 children reported in the March issue of Epilepsy.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lacosamide monotherapy for the treatment of childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes was well tolerated and ...

Epilepsy is when the brain has an electrical misfire that causes multiple seizures. And depending on where the misfire takes place, the seizure will have different effects, such as freezing you or ...

Focal cortical dysplasia is caused by areas of the brain that have developed abnormally and is among the most common causes of drug-resistant epilepsy in children. It frequently occurs in the frontal ...

A new form of gene therapy designed to treat the most treatment-resistant form of childhood epilepsy appears to reduce seizures in mice. In a research article published Dec. 14 in Brain, researchers ...

A woman once diagnosed with epilepsy as a child returned to her neurologist years later. She had faced significant challenges ...