A traumatic brain injury (TBI), even a mild type, can lead to post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) up to a year after the head injury occurs, new research suggests. Results from a multicenter, prospective ...

Experiments show a strong relationship between changes in astrocytes after mild traumatic brain injury and the eventual occurrence of a seizure. Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute ...

Epilepsy is a disease marked by recurrent seizures, or sudden periods of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. One in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some ...

Seizure prophylaxis leads to a modest risk reduction for early posttraumatic seizure (PTS) in patients with mild or moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI). Seizure prophylaxis led to a 0.6% absolute ...

Asked to picture a seizure in action, what may come to mind is a person on the ground, eyes rolled backward and limbs jerking. This could describe a more dramatic epileptic seizure, but seizures can ...

When a high fever triggers seizures in a child, the experience can be very scary for the parents, but most of the time, the seizures will resolve on their own. Febrile seizures are convulsions that ...

The Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota wants teachers to recognize the sometimes-subtle signs of a seizure and what to do about them. Lisa Peterson, regional outreach manager at the Epilepsy Foundation ...