A traumatic brain injury (TBI), even a mild type, can lead to post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) up to a year after the head injury occurs, new research suggests. Results from a multicenter, prospective ...

Asked to picture a seizure in action, what may come to mind is a person on the ground, eyes rolled backward and limbs jerking. This could describe a more dramatic epileptic seizure, but seizures can ...

Epilepsy is a disease marked by recurrent seizures, or sudden periods of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. One in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some ...

HERMANTOWN — Lisa Peterson wasn’t diagnosed with epilepsy until she crashed her car into a Mesaba Avenue median on Dec. 17, 1996. That was her junior year at Superior Senior High School, but there had ...

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. -- Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has been in treatment for brain cancer, was taken by ambulance to a hospital near his Cape Cod vacation home today after complaining of feeling ill. A ...

The cortical grey matter of a mouse is depicted in this 3D reconstructed confocal image. Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC linked a subtype of atypical brain cells called ...

Chief Justice Roberts was released from a hospital yesterday after suffering a seizure yesterday near his summer home in Maine. Justice Roberts, 52, smiled and waved as he walked to a vehicle that ...

Experiments show a strong relationship between changes in astrocytes after mild traumatic brain injury and the eventual occurrence of a seizure. Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute ...

In the last decade, mounting evidence has linked seizure-like activity in the brain to some of the cognitive decline seen in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Patients with Alzheimer's disease have ...