The Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan is thrilled to host the 17th Annual Toasting Hope Tasting Event, as we commemorate over 75 years of serving the epilepsy community. This highly anticipated event ...

Are you building a product, device, or digital tool to improve the lives of people living with epilepsy? The Epilepsy Foundation, in partnership with the Danny Did Foundation, are pleased to bring ...

Living with epilepsy often means taking medication every day to help control seizures. These anti-seizure medications (previously anti-epileptic drugs), like Keppra, can be life-changing—and sometimes ...

TBI is a well-recognized cause of seizures and epilepsy. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the result of an external force on the head. TBI can occur as a result of the following: The head suddenly and ...

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) refers to a group of severe epilepsies that are characterized both by seizures, which are often drug-resistant, as well as encephalopathy, which is a ...

The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) is the world's main scientific body devoted to the study of epilepsy, and it has recently revised its classification of seizures. The changes will help ...

Seizures and epilepsy are not the same. An epileptic seizure is a transient occurrence of signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Epilepsy is a ...

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): developmental dysfunction involving social, speech, cognition and behavioral disabilities About 0.1% of children have ASD worldwide In the United States, about 1.5% of ...

NORD gratefully acknowledges Nicolas Gaspard MD, PhD, Neurology Department and Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Hôpital Erasme, Bruxelles, Belgium and Lawrence J. Hirsch ...

Seizure onset (where the seizure starts) can be precisely pinpointed to a single focus (place) in the brain, like finding the epicenter of an earthquake. Removal of the seizure focus is safe and ...

Why do seizures increase during pregnancy? One of the reasons seizures increase during pregnancy is that blood levels of anti-seizure medications go down during pregnancy. Seizures are known to ...

The following factsheets discuss different treatment options for epilepsy. If you are a medical professional, share these factsheets with your patients to help them understand their treatment options.