A seizure happens when there's a strong burst of electrical activity in their brain. This makes the neurons misfire, sending faulty messages when they're not supposed to. One type of seizure is ...

May 29, 2024 — While older drugs for epilepsy, taken while pregnant, have been shown in previous research to affect the creative thinking of children, a new study finds no effects on creativity ...

Seizures in children can look different depending on the type. The most obvious sign is convulsive seizures, also known as ...

The eruption of digital technologies and ICT has meant that, in recent decades, there has been an enormous presence of screens in people's lives and, above ...

Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE) is a neurological condition causing brief, unnoticed seizures often mistaken for daydreaming. Starting around age 4 and peaking at 6-7 years, it is treatable with ...

There are two main types of seizures. Focal, or partial seizures happen in just one part of the brain, while generalized seizures seem to occur all over the brain. Symptoms usually vary depending ...

Partial seizures are the most common seizure type in children. New antiepileptic drugs are needed because current treatments are often inadequate, or have intolerable adverse effects ...

in 526 otherwise healthy children (age range, 6–60 months) who presented with their first complex febrile seizure (focal seizures, duration >15 minutes, multiple seizures within 24 hours ...