Dr Ray O’Connor takes a look at the latest clinical articles on the subject of epilepsy, a common neurological disease that affects one to two per cent of the general population ...

Generalized Epilepsy. If you have this type of epilepsy, seizures start on both sides of the brain (or quickly affect networks of brain cells on both sides).

Generalized epilepsy has traditionally been considered a seizure of the 'whole brain.' However, new research has challenged this longstanding idea, ...

Electroencephalogram (EEG): A diagnostic test that measures brain waves, the electrical impulses in the cerebral cortex. ... Generalized seizure: a seizure that occurs all through the brain.

“A generalized epilepsy network derived from brain abnormalities and deep brain stimulation” Nature Communications DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57392-7. Funding: American Epilepsy Society, ...

Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE) is a neurological condition causing brief, unnoticed seizures often mistaken for daydreaming ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm Dr Andrew Wilner, reporting virtually from the 2022 American Epilepsy Society meeting in Nashville ...

Tonic-clonic seizures, also called grand mal seizures, are the most common presentation of idiopathic generalized epilepsy, affecting up to 86% of patients [8].

Add-on therapy and substitution monotherapy are both effective second-line treatments for women with idiopathic generalized epilepsy.

Epilepsy is a complicated neurological disorder that needs to be managed carefully. People with epilepsy can have happy, ...

If a person has two or more seizures within 24 hours of each other, the individual is usually diagnosed with epilepsy - which is defined "as a brain disorder characterized by recurring unprovoked ...