Quality sleep is critical for people living with epilepsy to avoid triggering seizures. Poor sleep can affect seizures, memory, and more.

Patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy often cycle through multiple medications as they seek relief from the seizures that disrupt their lives. Yet in many cases, these drugs offer little benefit, ...

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 ...

Findings published by The BMJ reinforce previous research linking use of the antiseizure drug valproate during pregnancy to neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD and autism in children, and ...

ATLANTA — Depression shapes the course of epilepsy at multiple stages — raising the risk of developing the disorder by about twofold and, once epilepsy is present, increases the chance of early ...

Epilepsy can be a difficult condition to diagnose. Seizures do not always happen in a doctor's office. Fortunately, the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) enhances diagnosis accuracy by observing patients ...

Constipation doesn’t typically cause seizures directly, but many people with epilepsy have constipation. Rarely, constipation may trigger seizures in people with epilepsy. Constipation is a common ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1.1% of US adults have epilepsy. Although 89% report seeing a physician in the past year about their condition, only 62% of adults ...

People with epilepsy are at risk for hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and hyperlipidemia; they also have an elevated risk of heart disease. Research suggests some of this risk may be due to the ...

If you or a loved one has experienced a seizure, you know how scary they can be. The uncontrolled jolting, stiffening of the body, and even loss of consciousness can be unnerving under the best of ...