Silas Hurd has his good days and his bad days. The 9-year-old's debilitating seizures are hard to watch, but his father, Forrest Hurd, said one thing can improve the boy's quality of life: medicinal ...

Researchers says millions of people globally could be carriers of the faulty gene behind the disorder.

From a specialized diet to rapid evaluation, there’s a lot to know about treating childhood epilepsy. We share the latest from experts at The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s. Parents ...

The trial involved 81 children between the ages of 2 and 18 that suffered up to 18 seizures a month resulting from Dravet syndrome ...

Epilepsy, also known as seizure disorder, is common, and there are many types. About 1 in 26 people in the U.S. will develop the disease in their lifetime. It affects people of all races, ethnic ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - About 54,000 Louisiana residents are living with Epilepsy. The term means recurrent seizures, and it’s the fourth most common neurological disorder. Epilepsy is characterized ...

Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a rare and severe form of epilepsy, accounting for up to 4 percent of all childhood epilepsy cases. LGS is characterized by three criteria: multiple seizure types, ...

Children with epilepsy should have a plan in place at school for how best to respond to medical emergencies. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released guidance suggesting prescribing ...

To stratify the risk of future epilepsy, physicians have historically used lumbar puncture, neuroimaging, and electroencephalography in these patients. Four predictors of future epilepsy in children ...

While older drugs for epilepsy, taken while pregnant, have been shown in previous research to affect the creative thinking of children, a new study finds no effects on creativity for children born to ...