Disability is a significant risk factor for lower quality of life (QOL) and increased caregiver burden among children with ...

Tottori University researchers in Japan have linked maternal psychological distress during pregnancy to an increased risk of epilepsy in children. Epilepsy affects 65 million people globally and ...

The gene neuropilin2 regulates inhibitory neuron migration and excitatory neuron connections, essential for balanced brain ...

"Controlling seizures during pregnancy is an important part of prenatal care for women with epilepsy, but for years, the effects of newer antiseizure medications on their children was unknown ...

These parents are in good company. About 100,000 U.S. children have intractable epilepsy—a treatment-resistant category of the disease characterized by uncontrolled seizures—and for some of ...

A new study links gestational hypertension, eclampsia, or preeclampsia to new-onset neurologic conditions, underscoring the ...

And in October, researchers from the U.K. reported significant reductions in IQ scores among children whose mothers took the epilepsy drug valproate during pregnancy. These children's IQs were ...

I'm Dr. John Whyte. I'm the Chief Medical Officer at WebMD. Today, I want to spend some time with you talking about epilepsy, particularly sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Joining me to help ...

Organized in 1986, the UAB Epilepsy Center is an effort of the Department of Neurology in conjunction with UAB Hospital to offer clinical, research, and education services to patients with epilepsy.

Yet it only goes so far and we are constantly in need of more – more food, more medicine, more support for the children, especially for Sviatoslav’s epilepsy medication. Pretty much everyone ...