When 20-year-old Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce died of "sudden unexpected death in epilepsy" (known as SUDEP) in 2019, his parents had not even heard of the condition. "We didn't know about SUDEP.

This informational guide, part of POPSUGAR's Condition Center, lays out the realities of this health concern: what it is, what it can look like, and strategies that medical experts say are proven to ...

A prospective, community-based study confirms that patients with epilepsy usually die of the same causes as other people. The analysis of the UK National General Practice Study of Epilepsy found that ...

Question: What causes epilepsy? Is it inherited? Answer: Epilepsy may be inherited, but it doesn't necessarily have to be. Beagles, keeshonds and dachshunds sometimes have epilepsy as an inheritable ...

Share on Pinterest Experts say more research and access to treatment are needed for people with epilepsy. Oscar Wong/Getty Images Epilepsy is a neurological condition that produces changes in the ...

Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain that affects the nervous system. Epilepsy causes abnormal electrical activity in the brain, which leads to seizures. There are many types of seizure medication, all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Learn more about idiopathic epilepsy in cats. Picture credit: Yelena Shander / Getty Images) Idiopathic epilepsy in cats is a ...

Doctors could soon reduce epilepsy misdiagnoses by up to 70% using a new tool that turns routine electroencephalogram, or EEG, tests that appear normal into highly accurate epilepsy predictors, a ...

Epilepsy causes more deaths per year in the United States than breast cancer. And while October inundates our campus with pink ribbons, Virginia Tech’s walkways and classrooms will not be adorned with ...

Doctors could soon reduce epilepsy misdiagnoses by up to 70% using a new tool that turns routine electroencephalogram, or EEG, tests that appear normal into highly accurate epilepsy predictors, a ...