What can help? Understanding the Condition: The first step is helping you and your family to understand the condition. Receiving the correct diagnosis can be enough for some people’s attacks to stop. Within weeks after the diagnosis, 1 in 6 people experience no further seizures. Three months after receiving an explanation of the diagnosis up to […]
A new Danish study shows a link between repeated febrile (fever-related) convulsions and the risk of epilepsy and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. The register-based study involved two million Danish children born between 1977 and 2011. Researchers from the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark identified approximately 17,000 children […]
A marijuana plant extract, also known as cannabidiol (CBD), is being commonly used to improve anxiety, sleep problems, pain, and many other neurological conditions. Now UNC School of Medicine researchers show it may alleviate seizures and normalize brain rhythms in Angelman syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental condition. Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the research conducted […]
Emma Paven had never met anyone with the mysterious syndrome she has lived with since she was 9 years old. Then a few months ago, while walking by a first-grade classroom in the school where she’s a teacher’s aide, the 19-year-old Hingham resident saw a little girl on her knees, staring at the bright LED […]
Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) is a rare catastrophic epileptic encephalopathy with a yet undefined etiology, affecting healthy children. It is characterized by acute manifestation of recurrent seizures or refractory status epilepticus preceded by febrile illness, but without evidence of infectious encephalitis. To date, the absence of specific biomarkers poses a significant diagnostic challenge; nonetheless, […]
One of four patients admitted to hospitals for evaluation of seizures don’t have epilepsy but rather have a debilitating and difficult to diagnose condition known as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, or PNES. Nearly 80 percent of these patients who suffer seizures not caused by altered electrical activity in the brain have been previously misdiagnosed as having […]
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