Seizure prophylaxis leads to a modest risk reduction for early posttraumatic seizure (PTS) in patients with mild or moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI). Seizure prophylaxis led to a 0.6% absolute ...

People in dangerous jobs don’t usually sleep well. New research is investigating if their susceptibility to concussions and poor sleep could put them at greater risk of developing epilepsy. The ...

Drug-resistant epilepsy affects millions of people worldwide and remains one of the most difficult neurological disorders to treat. For patients whose seizures continue despite medication, surgical ...

A Bronx man beaten in the head in a street fight died more than a year later from seizures brought on by the brain injury he suffered — and now his death has been ruled a homicide, the Daily News has ...

Age itself appears to be a risk factor for partial epilepsy and perhaps even for generalized-onset epilepsy. 8 Case-control studies suggest that aging has an epileptogenic effect on neurons. 9 More ...

Winner of the Journal on Neuro-Oncology Award sponsored by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Doris Du Wang, MD, presented her research, Seizure Outcome After Surgical Resection of Insular Glioma, during the ...

New-onset adult seizures may be due to stroke, high blood sugar, alcohol use or withdrawal, and several other medical conditions. If you had a first-time seizure as an adult, it may be a sign of ...