How the seizure affects your child depends on where the electrical activity happens in their brain. For example, if it happens in the occipital lobe in the back of the brain, your child may have ...

Epilepsy in children can be a challenging condition to manage. Here's a comprehensive overview of the causes, dietary ...

Frustrated with trying to comprehend why Savannah went from a seemingly health child to having intense and frequent seizures, Dixon-Salazar returned to school and earned her Ph.D., eventually ...

Febrile seizures are caused by a fever or high temperature. 1. The baby or child having a febrile seizure may be less responsive or unresponsive, arch their back, clench their fists, stiffen their ...

Children of women with epilepsy prescribed antiseizure medications do not have significant neurodevelopmental differences at age 6 years.

Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE) is a neurological condition causing brief, unnoticed seizures often mistaken for daydreaming ...

Watch TIME’s feature documentary on children and medical marijuana The girl was having up to 200 seizures per day when her parents heard anecdotal reports that marijuana could reduce or even ...

A seizure occurs when there is sudden abnormal electrical activity that temporarily interrupts normal brain function. Large groups of neurons fire at the same time like an electrical storm inside ...