Your child's health care professional will consider your child's age and overall health, and the frequency of seizures, when choosing which medications to prescribe. Many children with epilepsy who ...

Purple Day, observed annually on March 26, is a global initiative dedicated to raising awareness about epilepsy, a neurological disorder that affects millions of people worldwide History of Purple Day ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions in the world, yet myths and misconceptions continue to surround it. In many societies, seizures are still wrongly linked to superstition or ...

Scientists have developed an AI-powered tool that detects 64% of brain abnormalities linked to epilepsy that human radiologists miss. Scientists have developed an AI-powered tool that detects 64% of ...

For children with epilepsy, also having sleep apnea significantly increased their risk for sudden cardiac arrest 5-10 years later. The long-term use of continuous positive airway pressure therapy was ...

Children born to mothers with any diabetes type in Ontario, Canada, had a higher risk of developing epilepsy. For children of mothers with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, epilepsy risk tended to rise with ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool is able to identify focal cortical dysplasias (FCDs) — the microscopic lesions responsible for refractory epilepsy in children — with up to 94% accuracy. Dubbed ...

A new AI tool can accurately spot tiny brain lesions that cause severe epilepsy in children. A joint research team from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), Australia's largest child health ...

Children with epilepsy had an increased risk for injuries requiring hospitalization compared with controls in Finland, with boys showing greater risk than girls among all included participants. Risk ...

Children with epilepsy have a higher risk of also having autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A new study in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology examined factors associated with the co-occurrence of ...

Children with epilepsy have a higher risk of also having autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A new study appearing in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology has examined factors associated with the ...