“Do you know why you shouldn’t talk to strangers?” asks a police officer standing at the front of a classroom to a room full of students. Emily’s hand shoots up and the teacher encourages her to ...

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, ...

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 one of the most common neurological conditions in the world, yet myths and misconceptions continue to surround it. In many societies, seizures are still wrongly linked to superstition or ...

When I was young, I witnessed a student at my school having a seizure in the cafeteria. The teachers had us leave the area, ...

“How could I explain that I wasn’t being rude, and that I couldn’t control my ‘daydreams?’” A need exists for a better understanding of how absence epilepsy develops and how it can be treated. As ...