Most people with epilepsy or seizures during pregnancy will have a normal pregnancy and a healthy baby. It is important, though, that people take steps to manage any potential risks of seizures during ...

The older term "ether convulsions" is inappropriate since these attacks have been described as occurring as well under anesthesia employing nitrous oxide and oxygen, chloroform, vinethene, ethylene ...

Among women with epilepsy, studies regarding changes in seizure frequency during pregnancy have been limited by the lack of an appropriate nonpregnant comparator group to provide data on the natural ...

In our Medical Myths series, we approach medical misinformation head on. Using expert insight and peer reviewed research to wrestle fact from fiction, MNT brings clarity to the myth riddled world of ...

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 ...

The risk of febrile convulsions increases with the child's fever, and children who suffer from repeated febrile convulsions during their first year of life have an increased risk of developing ...

Approximately 1 in 26 people develop epilepsy, a condition in which someone experiences recurring and unprovoked seizures. But experiencing a seizure does not always mean a person has epilepsy.

In a study designed to better understand sudden, unexpected deaths in young children, which usually occur during sleep, researchers have identified brief seizures, accompanied by muscle convulsions, ...

Children who suffer repeated febrile convulsions have an increased risk of developing epilepsy and psychiatric disorders later in life; this is shown by a comprehensive register-based study from ...