What causes severe early infant epilepsy? Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden believe that mutations in the gene encoding the protein KCC2 might be ...

Epilepsy in women isn’t static. It doesn’t stay the same year after year, or even month to month. It shifts. And a big part of that has to do with hormones quietly rising and falling in the background ...

Epilepsy is a very prevalent neurological disorder. Approximately one-third of patients are resistant to currently available therapies. A team of researchers under the guidance of the Institute of ...

Epilepsy is the third most common neurological disorder in the United States, after Alzheimer's disease and stroke. Nearly 3 million Americans have the condition, and 200,000 new cases are diagnosed ...

Epilepsy is a medical condition that produces seizures, or a brief, strong surge of electricity in the brain that lasts a minute or two, or more. When a person has two or more unprovoked seizures, ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A common gene that can cause abnormal heart rhythms can also trigger epileptic seizures in the brain and may explain the sudden, unexplained deaths that often occur in people with ...