Every November since 1969, organizations across the country have sought to break the stigma surrounding epilepsy by celebrating Epilepsy Awareness Month. Throughout the month, advocates aim to provide ...

A team of epilepsy specialists at UC San Francisco has developed a method to predict 24-hour seizure risk. The discovery, which may be scalable to large numbers of patients, could help to improve the ...

People with temporal lobe epilepsy in particular often wander around aimlessly and unconsciously after a seizure. Researchers ...

Epilepsy patients who experience breathing interruptions after a seizure may be at a higher risk of sudden unexpected death ...

People often have fear and misconceptions about a disease like epilepsy. Many people think that if the mother or father has epilepsy, then the child will also definitely have this disease. Is this ...

Hormonal birth control does not cause seizure conditions. However, some research suggests it may increase seizure risk in people with epilepsy or other seizure disorders. This can happen due to ...

Ryan Simpson, 24, tells PEOPLE that his goal is to raise awareness about the disease Ryan Simpson Ryan Simpson was diagnosed with brain cancer after he began experiencing seizures in 2023 Simpson ...