Seizures have been described as irregular activity of the nerves in your brain, and sometimes these irregularities can become recurrent or chronic. When seizures become a consistent problem, this ...

People with conditions that make them susceptible to seizures may use medications or undergo surgery to reduce the frequency and severity of seizures. They may also take precautions at home to help ...

About 8 to 10 percent of people will have a seizure during their lifetime, but that doesn’t mean they have epilepsy. Many of those people never have another seizure. (1) One study followed people who ...

The causes of focal onset seizures can include epilepsy, stroke, or low blood sugar. Other times, the causes are unknown. Medication can help prevent focal seizures. The human brain works by sending ...

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder in which the normal chemical and electrical activities between nerve cells in the brain, or neurons, become disturbed. This disturbance causes the neurons ...

Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes changes in brain cell activity that result in seizures, periods of unusual behavior or feelings, and in some cases a loss of consciousness. Temporal lobe ...