Generalized epilepsy is now increasingly recognized as a brain network disease, but the location of this network and its potential therapeutic role remain unidentified. Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper ...

While generalized seizures cause convulsions, epilepsy includes other types like absence seizures (brief awareness lapses), atonic seizures (muscle weakness), and focal seizures (sensory disturbances; ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

Febrile seizure A fever can trigger febrile seizures in children aged 3 months to 6 years. This type of generalized seizure occurs in about 2% to 5% of children before age 5. Medical term ...

Both add-on therapy and substitution monotherapy are equally effective as second-line treatments for women with idiopathic generalized epilepsy, new research suggests.

Neurelis, Inc., today announced details of three poster presentations at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual ...

There are two main types of seizures. Focal, or partial seizures happen in just one part of the brain, while generalized seizures seem to occur all over the brain. Symptoms usually vary depending ...

Seizure types included generalized (primary generalized tonic-clonic, myoclonic, tonic, atonic, absence) and partial (simple, complex, and secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures); 10 (15% ...