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Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes recurring seizures. And it's common. It's estimated that 1 in 26 people develop the disorder, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. It affects people of all genders, races and ages, including children. And as school is starting across the country, Dr. Anthony Fine, a Mayo Clinic pediatric neurologist and ...
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Despite medications, surgery and neurostimulation devices, many people with epilepsy continue to have seizures. The unpredictable nature of seizures is severely limiting. If seizures could be reliably forecast, people with epilepsy could alter their activities, take a fast-acting medication or turn up their neurostimulator to prevent a seizure or minimize its effects. […]
Affecting about 0.5% of children with epilepsy, DEE-SWAS is rare, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. DEE-SWAS typically starts in children between the ages of 2 and 12. Regression of skills or failure to gain new skills is the hallmark of DEE-SWAS, although children also may have seizures.
It's a rare but devasting complication of epilepsy called SUDEP. "SUDEP is an acronym. It stands for sudden, unexplained, or unexpected, death in epilepsy," says Dr. Fine. Most cases of SUDEP happen during or immediately after a seizure. Researchers aren't certain what causes SUDEP, but it's possible that breathing or heart rhythm is affected ...
Life has changed in other ways, too. Jessica now works for the Epilepsy Foundation Northwest as manager of the H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People with Epilepsy) Volunteer Program. She says the job is a perfect fit. “I can relate to so many people and give them hope,” she says.
November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month. Epilepsy, also known as a seizure disorder, is a neurological condition affecting the nervous system. Epileptic seizures are caused by disturbances in the electrical activity of the brain. These seizures may be related to a brain injury or a family tendency, but most of the time the cause is unknown. In fact, in two-thirds […]
Jennifer O'Hara. November 4, 2022. Epilepsy is a neurologic central nervous system disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations and sometimes loss of awareness. Seizure symptoms can vary widely. Some people with epilepsy simply stare blankly for a few seconds during a seizure ...
Funding for the research includes support from the J. Orin Edson Foundation, the Epilepsy Foundation of America, the Benjamin A. Miller Clinician-Investigator Fellowship in Aging and Related Diseases, the Mayo Clinic Neurology Artificial Intelligence Program and the National Science Foundation (Award No. IIS-2105233), and the National ...
Though patients with chronic neurologic conditions like epilepsy are not at increased risk to contract COVID-19, they are more susceptible to increased seizures as a result of growing stress and anxiety over the pandemic. "We know that stress increases the environment for seizures to occur," says Dr. Joseph Sirven, a Mayo Clinic neurologist. "So with […]
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurologic conditions in the U.S., affecting about 3.4 million people, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month. Dr. Burkholder shares tips that patients and families can consider for visits with their health care provider and times in between: Prepare ahead of time.