From a specialized diet to rapid evaluation, there’s a lot to know about treating childhood epilepsy. We share the latest from experts at The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s. Parents ...

Your child’s brain is an incredible electrical system. Billions of neurons firing in perfect harmony to create thoughts, movements, feelings, and memories. But sometimes, that delicate electrical ...

NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Apr 17 — The gamma knife is effective in medically intractable seizures with localized foci, according to a case series of 4 children reported in the March issue of Epilepsy.

The family were told of her diagnosis of CLN2 Battens Disease, a type of childhood dementia, on March 26, 2024, as James ...

A medicine made from the marijuana plant moved one step closer to U.S. approval Thursday after federal health advisers endorsed it for the treatment of severe seizures in children with epilepsy. If ...

A family in Wichita Falls is raising money to purchase a specially trained service dog for their 5-year-old daughter who ...

A new form of gene therapy designed to treat the most treatment-resistant form of childhood epilepsy appears to reduce seizures in mice. In a research article published Dec. 14 in Brain, researchers ...

Focal cortical dysplasia is caused by areas of the brain that have developed abnormally and is among the most common causes of drug-resistant epilepsy in children. It frequently occurs in the frontal ...

Researchers demonstrated that individuals who had childhood epilepsy have an increased accumulation of brain amyloid later in life, potentially predisposing them to late-onset brain amyloid disorders, ...

Seizures caused by fevers in children as a result of vaccinations are extremely rare, according to a new study published in Pediatrics. For the study, researchers determined the risk of febrile ...

A baby with a rare neurological disorder, airlifted to hospital after collapsing in a supermarket, is not "out of the woods ...