A 20-year-old woman presented to a specialist epilepsy center with seizures, myoclonus, ataxia, and impaired executive functions. She was born to unrelated parents, had febrile seizures in infancy, ...

A lifelong illness, Dravet syndrome develops because of a genetic mutation that affects the ability of brain cells to send and receive messages. About 1 in 15,700 infants are born with Dravet syndrome ...

Although several drugs in wide use at the present time benefit the majority of patients with petit-mal seizures the seizures of some patients are not controlled by commonly used medications; thus, in ...

Epilepsy in children is a difficult journey for parents. The very natural reactions of fear, helplessness can be overwhelming ...

A collaborative study describes a novel myoclonic epilepsy syndrome in dogs for the first time and discovers its genetic cause at DIRAS1 gene. The affected dogs developed myoclonic seizures at young ...