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DEE-SWAS is a rare form of epilepsy, affecting 1 out of 200 (0.5%) children with epilepsy. It starts in children between 2 and 12 years of age. Most often it starts between 4 and 5 years of age. This ...

The Legal Defense Fund has prepared a series of fact sheets and advocacy materials to educate the public about the legal rights of people with epilepsy. If you are facing discrimination because of ...

Myoclonic atonic epilepsy (MAE), typically known as Doose syndrome, is an uncommon childhood epilepsy syndrome. I accounts for 1 to 2 out of 100 (1 to 2%) of all childhood-onset epilepsies. Genetics ...

New Approaches to Seizure First Aid This first video in the series introduces the other videos and explains what viewers will learn and why it’s important. [scald=17141:sdl_editor_representation] Care ...

Seizures do not always look like convulsions. Less talked-about signs can include changes in the senses, body signals, and ...

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a term used to describe a focal area of abnormal brain cell (“neuron”) organization and development. Brain cells normally form into organized layers of cells to form ...

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) refers to a group of severe epilepsies that are characterized both by seizures, which are often drug-resistant. It is also encephalopathy, which is a ...

When the first few seizure medications don’t stop or control a person’s seizures, the chances are not so good that a different medicine will be completely successful. The term 'drug resistant epilepsy ...

The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) is the world's main scientific body devoted to the study of epilepsy, and it has recently revised its classification of seizures. The changes will help ...

Seizures may be slightly more common in people with MS than in the general population due to the way MS affects the brain. We now know that MS damages several parts of the brain (the white brain ...