Symptoms consistent with focal seizures are often reported by patients who have idiopathic generalised epilepsies (IGE) and are associated with a short duration of freedom from seizures, say ...

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows advancement of RAP-219 into registrational trials for focal onset seizures (FOS); accelerated initiation of Phase 3 program expected in the second ...

The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) has revised its classification of seizure types to improve nomenclature, add new seizure types, and give clinicians the ability to classify seizures ...

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Background. A 20-year-old woman was referred to our intensive care unit with a high frequency (every 1–2 min) of focal motor seizures. She had been diagnosed as having biopsy-proven Rasmussen ...

Scientists at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and affiliated with the CHOP Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGIN) say they have combined clinical information with large-scale genomic ...

A seizure occurs when there is abnormal electrical activity in the brain. There are different types of seizures depending on where and how much brain activity is affected. If someone is seizing make ...