When "newborn jitters" turned out to be a rare brain condition, Veronica Monclova fought for the surgery that saved her daughter’s life.

While the signs of some chronic illnesses are vague or invisible, epilepsy symptoms can be hard to miss. The neurological disorder is characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures, or periods of ...

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type 2 is a congenital malformation of the cerebral cortex that is often associated with difficult-to-treat epilepsy. In the affected areas, nerve cells and their layer ...

When epileptic patients suffer seizures, their brain is undergoing repetitive and excessive neuronal firing. But what triggers this has stumped scientists for years. Now, researchers have used ...

Saturday, Nov. 11, is the birthday of Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of Russia's greatest novelists. The author of such classics as "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Idiot," and "Crime and Punishment," ...

Every November since 1969, organizations across the country have sought to break the stigma surrounding epilepsy by celebrating Epilepsy Awareness Month. Throughout the month, advocates aim to provide ...

In honour of Epilepsy Awareness Month, writer Erin Vollick sat down with a leading neurological researcher at the University of Toronto, Berj L. Bardakjian. A biomedical engineering professor at the ...

In a world first, a research team at the University of Zurich has successfully treated mice carrying an inherited form of ...

NA denotes not applicable, and ND not detected. Febrile seizures plus are febrile seizures that occur after the age when these seizures usually occur (3 months to 6 years) or when there are concurrent ...

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, previously known as pseudoseizures, usually have a psychological cause. They are different from epilepsy and do not involve changes to electrical impulses in the ...