The following factsheets discuss different treatment options for epilepsy. If you are a medical professional, share these factsheets with your patients to help them understand their treatment options.

Certain individuals are born with special sensitivity to flashing lights or contrasting visual patterns, such as stripes, grids and checkerboards. Because of this condition, their brain will produce ...

What started as a neighborhood lemonade stand has grown into a global movement to raise funds and awareness for those living with the challenges of epilepsy. Every summer, participants from around the ...

REGISTRATION for the 2025 meeting is NOW OPEN. Register HERE. The conference focuses on issues related to Epilepsy Therapies & Diagnostic Developments (ETDD) from preclinical discoveries through ...

The Epilepsy Foundation of America is proud to announce the appointment of four distinguished leaders to its Board of Directors.

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

TBI is a well-recognized cause of seizures and epilepsy. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the result of an external force on the head. TBI can occur as a result of the following: The head suddenly and ...

Seizure onset (where the seizure starts) can be precisely pinpointed to a single focus (place) in the brain, like finding the epicenter of an earthquake. Removal of the seizure focus is safe and ...

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 ...

Some concerns faced by people living with epilepsy include taking medications properly, having healthy habits, keeping in mind seizure safety guidelines, and avoiding medications that may worsen your ...

Having one neurological diagnosis is hard enough. Add a second and you are sure to feel as if your body is not your own. People living with epilepsy may face loss of consciousness and involuntary ...

One of the most important activities from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is to collect information about health conditions, who and how many are affected, and other data that can ...