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Epilepsy treatment may include medication, lifestyle changes, and, in cases of drug-resistant epilepsy, epilepsy surgery may be considered to reduce seizure frequency and improve quality of life.

Sensations like tingling, or odd smells and tastes before an episode may signal focal seizures. This is a kind of seizures known as auras, are often early warning signs.

Your epileptologist (epilepsy specialist) will determine what type of seizure you have based on your symptoms and diagnostic test results. Our epileptologists treat all types of epileptic seizures, ...

Motor or non-motor Doctors may also use the words motor or non-motor to describe focal seizures. Focal motor describes focal seizures where the main symptoms involve muscle activity, such as jerking, ...

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Migraine and epilepsy have similar symptoms and risk factors, making it possible to misdiagnose one for the other. People who have one condition have a higher risk of developing the other, but ...

What is familial focal epilepsy with variable foci (FFEVF)? Familial focal epilepsy with variable foci (FFEVF) is a rare syndrome of focal seizures with varying degrees of severity and symptoms of ...

Psychotic symptoms of focal seizures last from 20 seconds to 3 minutes, tend to be stereotyped for a given person, and are not associated with persistent delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, or ...

National Epilepsy Day was initiated by the Epilepsy Foundation of India which was founded by Dr Nirmal Surya in Mumbai in 2009. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 50 million people ...

The characteristics of the clinical seizures in the symptomatic familial cases of focal "temporal-lobe" epilepsy have been analyzed, and they are presented in tabular form. These data consist of ...