Seizures do not always look like convulsions. Less talked-about signs can include changes in the senses, body signals, and ...

DEE-SWAS is a rare form of epilepsy, affecting 1 out of 200 (0.5%) children with epilepsy. It starts in children between 2 and 12 years of age. Most often it starts between 4 and 5 years of age. This ...

View photos of the 2025 Remembrance Wall at the National Epilepsy Walk in Washington D.C. The Epilepsy Foundation SUDEP program would like to express our deepest condolences to you and your family ...

New Approaches to Seizure First Aid This first video in the series introduces the other videos and explains what viewers will learn and why it’s important. [scald=17141:sdl_editor_representation] Care ...

We are healing from within! Please join us for the 2nd Annual Epilepsy Brunch-4-Brain 2026: Wellness From Within on Saturday, August 29, 2026 from 11:00am to 2:00pm at DoubleTree by Hilton in ...

Are you building a product, device, or digital tool to improve the lives of people living with epilepsy? Each fall, the Epilepsy Foundation, in partnership with the Danny Did Foundation, hosts an ...

Getting a good night's sleep can take some planning and better sleep hygiene. Sleep hygiene is an everyday habit that can help you get good, consistent sleep.

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. It is also encephalopathy, which is a ...

Seizures may be slightly more common in people with MS than in the general population due to the way MS affects the brain. We now know that MS damages several parts of the brain (the white brain ...

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 ...

Incontinentia pigmenti (IP) is one of the genetic diseases collectively known as neurocutaneous disorders. These neurocutaneous disorders cause characteristic patterns of discolored skin and ...