A new experimental drug is showing remarkable promise for children with Dravet syndrome, a severe genetic form of epilepsy.

If you see someone having a seizure or fit, there are some simple things you can do to help.

An experimental treatment reduces seizures and other symptoms in children with a type of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome.

Among the 981,869 children, 0.8% were diagnosed with sepsis and less than 0.1% diagnosed with meningitis; overall, 1.2% of children developed epilepsy during the study period. Children with clinically ...

Scientists have developed an AI-powered tool that detects 64% of brain abnormalities linked to epilepsy that human radiologists miss. Scientists have developed an AI-powered tool that detects 64% of ...

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 ...

Discover how ultra-early epilepsy surgeries transform the lives of children with drug-resistant seizures, preventing long-term brain damage.

A new AI tool can accurately spot tiny brain lesions that cause severe epilepsy in children. A joint research team from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), Australia's largest child health ...

Maternal diabetes mellitus, particularly type 2 and type 1, is associated with an increased epilepsy risk in offspring, a Canadian population study found. The findings suggest that prenatal metabolic ...

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 ...

A neurologic disorder is any condition that affects the brain and nerves throughout the body. Common neurologic conditions in children include epilepsy, cerebral palsy, attention deficit hyperactivity ...