For National Epilepsy Awareness Month in November, a Texas Tech Physicians expert shares a message to help children and ...

Children with epilepsy often face multiple challenges — not only seizures but learning, cognitive and school difficulties, side effects from medication, and, not surprisingly, social stigma from their ...

Seizures in children can be a terrifying experience for both the child and their parents. Understanding the underlying causes is crucial for effective management and treatment. This article will ...

Parents can significantly reduce childhood seizures by identifying and avoiding common triggers like fever, missed medication ...

Epilepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system (CNS). This neurological dysfunction arises due to disruption in nervous activity in the CNS that causes seizures or periods of highly unusual ...

Scientists have used a cannabis-based drug to reduce seizures in children with a rare form of epilepsy, according to a new study. The participants involved in the study had Dravet syndrome, a form of ...

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 ...

Children whose mothers have taken anti-epilepsy medicine during pregnancy, do not visit the doctor more often than children who have not been exposed to this medicine in utero. This is the result of a ...

MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2016 -- Brothers and sisters of children with epilepsy tend to worry and feel protective toward them, a new study finds. "When a child has a chronic disease, it impacts the family and ...

You may want to desensitize the child and train him or her to be able to cope better (Photo: Shutterstock) It’s one of your worst nightmares, as a parent who wants their child to be successful, when ...

Epilepsy, which is characterized by seizures of unknown origin, affects millions of people worldwide. It is a neurological disorder and often the cause is not completely known. Brian and Megan Sortman ...

Children exposed in the womb to the drug sodium valproate, used to treat epilepsy, or a combination of anti-epileptic drugs, had poorer academic scores in math, language and science in early ...