“Grand mal”, which means “great sickness” in French, is actually the old term for what’s now called a tonic-clonic seizure. These seizures involve both stiffening (tonic) and twitching ...

Seizures, or sudden, individual uncontrolled electrical disturbances in the brain, may show a wide range of symptoms ...

The most severe form is a tonic-clonic seizure. “A tonic-clonic seizure (formerly known as grand mal seizure) is a type of seizure that is characterized by the whole body stiffening and ...

Spread the loveReflex epilepsy, a rare form of epilepsy triggered by specific stimuli, is often associated with sensory ...

Six rare disease organizations have co-funded a $275,000 grant to Orrin Devinsky, MD, of NYU Grossman School of Medicine, to ...

Learn how epilepsy contributes to difficulties with sexual function and what techniques and medications may help you safely ...

A nine-year-old girl in Pembrokeshire who saved her mother from a near-fatal seizure has gone on to win an Epilepsy Star ...

Almost all seizure types can be seen in a child with tuberous sclerosis complex, including tonic, clonic, tonic-clonic, atonic, myoclonic, atypical absence, partial, and complex partial.

These children show myoclonic jerks and/or epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures only in response to a visual stimulus. Visually induced and spontaneous seizures, with or without a ...

"His first seizure being a tonic-clonic, it was before we had any monitoring, and he actually seized for quite some time. We weren't even aware of it. He was in active convulsions when we went to ...

Three presentations highlighting long-term data and improved quality of life outcomes in adults with focal onset seizuresVANCOUVER, British ...

Last month, University of Florida President Ben Sasse — a former Republican senator from Nebraska who was appointed to his UF position in November 2022 and assumed it in February 2023 ...