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About one in three people who have a mini stroke, or a transient ischemic attack, will suffer a stroke eventually.
Lip-smacking, excessive blinking, or hand wringing during unawareness could be automatisms, minor seizures that many dismiss as habits or tics. Know the early symptoms of epilepsy. (Freepik) ...
Epilepsy presents differently in each person. The condition has a range of symptoms that varies. Convulsions can be one sign of epilepsy. However, people often experience epilepsy without ever having ...
Absence seizure, formerly known as petit mal seizure, is a type of short seizure that usually causes a person to briefly lose focus, stare into space, and lose awareness of their surroundings.
"Every night I would have seizures, up to 10, and it was just miserable," Clara said, recalling the years lost to her condition. Her adolescence was marked by sleepless nights and constant medical ...
Minisensor measures symptoms in the ear The company Cosinuss GmbH in Munich has already developed an epilepsy sensor, which is placed in the ear like a hearing aid. The measuring device will be ...
About one in 100 people in the U.S. have epilepsy. About 3% to 5% of those people have photosensitive epilepsy. Children and adolescents ages 7 to 19 are more likely to have photosensitive ...
The epileptical disease, Absence Seizure disturbs the mood, cognition, memory, and attention and is caused in children younger than 12, and sometimes adults. Some of it’s symptoms are ...
Seizures can be the result of many different things since "any insult to the brain - whether it is experiencing a head injury or a metabolic imbalance - can cause one," says Dr. Vladimir Shvarts ...
Background Major depression is relatively common among patients with epilepsy, but there is currently no easy-to-use screening tool that can pick up symptoms of major depression while reliably ...
Symptoms of autoimmune epilepsy can develop rapidly from the onset of the condition. If not treated with immunotherapy, the seizures can become more frequent, and different seizure types can emerge.