Seizures are periods of abnormal electrical activity in your brain that can cause changes to your: consciousness behavior feeling memory physical movements The most common cause of seizures is epilepsy, which affects about 3 million adults and 470,000 children in the United States. Epilepsy is characterized by reoccurring seizures not caused by an underlying medical condition, […]
Parents, teachers and other adults who care for children should know what the signs of epilepsy are, and what to do if a child has a seizure. What do these famous faces – Theodore Roosevelt, Neil Young, Elton John, Prince, and Susan Boyle – all have in common? They suffered epilepsy as children. “In children, epilepsy […]
Epilepsy can hit at any age, but it is most frequent in children and those over 65 years of age. Some children with epilepsy disease will outgrow their seizures as they get older. In contrast, others may continue to suffer seizures until adulthood. Although epilepsy differs from person to person, many children with epilepsy have […]
It is a known fact that the prevalence of epilepsy, which is seen in approximately 65 million people in the world. Altınbaş University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Doctor, and Faculty Member Emir Ruşen pointed out that epilepsy is the most common neurological disease in children up to the age of 16 stated that […]
The 12-year-old was diagnosed after he suffered a convulsive seizure in primary school When 12-year-old Daniel Cleary has an epileptic seizure, everybody in his family stops what they’re doing – mum Orla, dad Stephen and Daniel’s siblings, Charlotte, 13, and Samuel, seven. “Everybody in the house knows we all come to him. No matter what’s […]
New research from the University of South Australia could deliver a breakthrough for children suffering one of the most severe forms of genetic epilepsy, reducing the frequency of their seizures and improving their quality of life. Malignant migrating partial seizures in infancy (MMPSI) is a childhood epilepsy most commonly caused by mutations in the KCNT1 gene – a gene responsible for […]
