Epileptic disorders caused by mutations in KCNT1 affect an estimated 3,000 children in the United States. Associate Professor Matthew Weston and his team with the Fralin Biomedical Research ...

Article Seizures that resemble epileptic seizures but are not related to epilepsy, should be called non-epileptic seizures, even though the expression is not completely precise. 'The Almighty Brain' ...

Stress can cause seizures known as psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). PNES differ from neurological seizures with causes such as epilepsy. Learn about stress’s relationship to PNES ...

Out of these 198 patients in the study, 91 patients had epilepsy while the rest had non-epileptic conditions mimicking epilepsy. When Sarma's team reanalyzed the initial EEGs using EpiScalp, the tool ...

But not all people who appear to have seizures have epilepsy, a group of related disorders characterized by a tendency for recurrent seizures. Non-epileptic seizures (called pseudoseizures ...

Epilepsy and epileptic seizures are explained below. Seizures that are not due to epilepsy are sometimes called 'non-epileptic seizures'. They can have a physical cause such as low blood sugar ...

Dissociative seizures are a type of nonepileptic seizure resulting from ... A 2022 review states that about 44% of people with PNES also have epilepsy. This co-occurrence can make diagnosing ...

For the more than three million people in the U.S. who are living with epilepsy, the uncertainty of the next seizure's appearance can create dangerous situations. Now, for many people with the ...

Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurologic disorder in the United States. Approximately 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy. 1 An estimated 1 in 26 people will develop ...