A common seizure trigger in people with epilepsy is being sick with some type of acute illness or infection. Head colds, lung infections or sinus infections (caused by viruses or bacteria) can often ...

Sleep and epilepsy are closely connected. Sleep can affect the frequency, occurrence, timing, and length of seizures. Steps you take to improve your sleep can lessen the frequency of seizures as well ...

Most people with epilepsy take one or more medicines. The goal is to prevent seizures with as few side effects as possible. To do this, it may be the right choice to change or lower the number of ...

Some people may find that seizures occur in a pattern or are more likely to occur in certain situations. Sometimes is just by chance, but other times it’s not. Keeping track of any factors that may ...

The most common type of rescue medicines are from a group of medicines called benzodiazepines. These are generally fast-acting, which means they will start to work quickly once they get into the ...

New terms to describe and classify seizures have been developed by the International League Against Epilepsy. This was done to make the names of seizures more accurate, less confusing, and more ...

Myoclonic (MY-o-KLON-ik) seizures are brief, shock-like jerks of a muscle or a group of muscles. "Myo" means muscle and "clonus" (KLOH-nus) means rapidly alternating contraction and relaxation—jerking ...

Muscle "tone" is the muscle's normal tension at rest. In a tonic seizure, the tone is greatly increased: the body, arms, or legs become suddenly stiff or tense. A person may be aware or have only a ...

Seizures can take on many different forms, and seizures affect different people in different ways. Anything that the brain does normally can also occur during a seizure when the brain is activated by ...

The Epilepsy Foundation leads the fight to overcome the challenges of living with epilepsy and to accelerate therapies to stop seizures, find cures, and save lives. We are fortunate to have an amazing ...

Medical cannabis is more commonly known as medical marijuana. “Cannabis” is the name of the plant, and “marijuana” usually refers to parts of the cannabis plant. Medical cannabis is marijuana from the ...

DBS therapy for the treatment of seizures was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2018. It has been approved in Europe, Australia, and Canada for several years. DBS therapy that ...