The number of US children who suffered a seizure after swallowing someone else’s medication or illegal substance nearly doubled between 2009 and 2023, new research finds. These types of seizures in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Influenza (flu virus) is the most commonly identified viral infection in children with fever-induced seizures. Other common respiratory viruses linked to "febrile seizures" ...

Per TMZ, in his upcoming book Renaissance of a Boss: Notes From a Creative Reawakening, Ross reflects on a 2022 incident in which he suffered a seizure while aboard a plane, forcing an emergency ...

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is in the same botanical family as ginger (Zingiberaceae). The rhizome is used as a coloring agent and a spice in such foods as curries, and as a medicinal agent in India and ...

The unpredictable, debilitating nature of a seizure can be frightening, for both the person experiencing it and anyone watching nearby. In that moment, control often slips away as muscles stiffen, ...

In temporal lobe epilepsy — a common and debilitating form of the disorder — seizures often cause those affected to lose consciousness. But why that happens has been unclear. In a new study, Yale ...

Synphane Gibbs-Shelton receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Seizures are like sudden electrical storms in the brain. Seizure disorders like epilepsy affect over 65 million people ...

A team of epilepsy specialists at UC San Francisco has developed a method to predict 24-hour seizure risk. The discovery, which may be scalable to large numbers of patients, could help to improve the ...

Many people who have had a seizure do not remember it. Afterward, they may feel confused and drowsy, have a headache, or be nauseous. Doctors often call this a postictal state. Usually, the brain ...

Alcoholic insanity is an outdated term to describe alcohol-induced psychosis. This is a rare condition in which alcohol use disorder, acute alcohol intoxication, and alcohol withdrawal can cause ...