Seizures in children can be a terrifying experience for both the child and their parents. Understanding the underlying causes is crucial for effective management and treatment. This article will ...

June 3, 2010 — Recent-onset epilepsy can alter brain development and delay increases in white matter volume, report researchers. These new findings have implications for the cognitive development of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children with epilepsy experienced more sleep-related problems such as night waking, parasomnias and ...

If your child is suddenly falling or showing unusual behaviours, it may indicate paediatric epilepsy. Find out what the signs ...

Silas Hurd has his good days and his bad days. The 9-year-old's debilitating seizures are hard to watch, but his father, Forrest Hurd, said one thing can improve the boy's quality of life: medicinal ...

Objective: The aim was to study the epidemiological aspects of febrile seizures and to identify etiologies in children from 1 ...

A Cork nurse working with epileptic children came up with a plan for CUH that has saved the HSE €260,000 and freed up ...

Children exposed in the womb to the drug sodium valproate, used to treat epilepsy, or a combination of anti-epileptic drugs, had poorer academic scores in math, language and science in early ...

Children born to mothers with any diabetes type in Ontario, Canada, had a higher risk of developing epilepsy. For children of mothers with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, epilepsy risk tended to rise with ...

Children with epilepsy sleep poorly compared to healthy children, and are more likely to experience disruptions such as night terrors, sleep walking or sleep disordered breathing, according to a new ...

Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a rare and severe form of epilepsy, accounting for up to 4 percent of all childhood epilepsy cases. LGS is characterized by three criteria: multiple seizure types, ...

When a child has a fever, their body can ache, they are restless and they just don't feel well. While a fever is a part of our natural response to infection, the fever itself can lead to complications ...