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What is Dravet Syndrome?

Babies with Dravet syndrome are more likely to have febrile seizures, but they also have seizures that aren’t necessarily related to a fever. Becau...

Types & Characteristics

Abdominal epilepsy is a condition in which seizure activity causes abdominal symptoms like pain and nausea. Women with epilepsy may notice they hav...

How Do I Know If I Have Epilepsy?

It helps the doctor compare how different parts of your brain work. For this test, the doctor injects a radioactive material into a vein in your ar...

What are The Types of Epilepsy?

All types of epilepsy have seizures as a symptom. If you had a seizure caused by epilepsy, your doctor will follow three steps to give you the righ...

Conditions Similar to Epilepsy

Nonepileptic Events Nonepileptic events look like seizures, but actually are not. Nonepileptic events that have a psychological basis are known as ...

What are The Treatments for Epilepsy?

Tell your doctor about the other medications or supplements you take, even if you buy them over the counter (without a prescription). Seizure medic...

What is Epilepsy Surgery?

This surgery removes brain lesions -- areas of injury or defect like a tumor or malformed blood vessel -- that cause seizures. This stops communica...

Seizure

If they keep coming back, that's epilepsy, or a seizure disorder. Less than 1 in 10 people who have a seizure get epilepsy.

What is Epilepsy?

Epilepsy is a condition where there is unusual electrical activity in your brain, resulting in seizures. To get an epilepsy diagnosis, you typicall...

Epilepsy and The Spinal Tap

A local anesthetic (pain-relieving medication) will be injected into the area on your back. The spinal canal will be penetrated and fluid will be c...

Understanding Seizures and Epilepsy

Seizures, abnormal movements or behavior due to unusual electrical activity in the brain, are a symptom of epilepsy. Seizure disorder is a general ...

Types of Seizures

Seizures aren’t always an either-or thing: Some people have seizures that start as one kind, then become another. Clonic seizures: Your muscles hav...