HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Alan Faneca remembers waking up in the middle of the night, scared and unsure of what was wrong with his body. He was 15 and in his freshman year of high school, and his first ...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, European scientists began investigating genius as a psychopathological phenomenon. The most important representative of this genre of medical literature ...

Migraines and epilepsy often go hand in hand. If you have epilepsy, you’re more than twice as likely to get migraines as someone who doesn’t. The reverse is true, too. People with migraines are more ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 1 out of 10 people will have a seizure during their lifetime. Most of these seizures will be epileptic seizures, which are ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have uncovered how problems in cortical microcircuits in the brain can trigger epileptic seizures. The researchers say that targeting the ...

When epileptic patients suffer seizures, their brain is undergoing repetitive and excessive neuronal firing. But what triggers this has stumped scientists for years. Now, researchers have used ...

SAN DIEGO — Certain musical elements within songs — especially when tied to emotional memories — may trigger a rare form of epilepsy known as musicogenic epilepsy, new research suggested The term ...

Dissociative seizures are similar to epileptic seizures as they cause involuntary movements and behaviors. However, unlike epileptic seizures, dissociative seizures can occur without corresponding ...

Researchers have found that an amino acid produced by the brain could play a crucial role in preventing a type of epileptic seizure. A team of researchers from the Florida State University College of ...