Background: Patients with loss of consciousness and convulsion often have the diagnosis of epilepsy despite normal electroencephalograms (EEGs). Objective: To evaluate the proportion of patients ...

Recurrent seizures are debilitating and can sometimes, be fatal. The onset and presentation of seizures vary significantly among epilepsy patients. Of more than 25 categories of seizure presentations ...

Patients commonly present with syncope at emergency departments and other facilities for urgent care. Syncope is understood by physicians to be a transient, self-terminating period of cerebral ...

Syncope means fainting or passing out. When fainting is caused by certain triggers, like the sight of blood or a needle, or an intense emotion like fear or fright, it’s called vasovagal syncope. It’s ...

Syncope is the medical term for fainting. When you faint, you lose consciousness for a short time. Overall, syncope is caused by a decrease in blood flow to the brain, which can lead to a temporary ...

A syncopal attack is a temporary loss of consciousness caused by a sudden drop in blood flow to the brain. The common causes of this condition are such things as low blood pressure, irregular ...

Fainting, medically known as syncope, is a condition that may need immediate medical attention. The causes of fainting may range from mild to severe conditions. Fainting is the temporary loss of ...

THE case reported below represents a new and very distinct clinical entity. The young patient was observed by us for some years. It was hoped that a similar combination of clinical findings might be ...

Dr. Nathan C. Praschan (Psychiatry): A 27-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of convulsions. The patient had been in his usual state of health until 2 years before this admission, when ...

The baseline clinical characteristics are shown in Table I. Neurologists referred 64 patients, but nine were excluded from the study by exclusion criteria. The study included 55 consecutive patients: ...