November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month (NEAM), and the call to action is "Share Your Purple Power.” This year’s theme celebrates the unwavering strength, resilience, and courage of epilepsy ...

Safety is always the most important thing when it comes to an exercise program for anyone of any ability level. Below are steps to take to ensure that you're putting yourself in the safest position ...

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 ...

Epilepsy is not a mental illness. In fact, the vast majority of people living with epilepsy have no cognitive or psychological problem. For the most part, psychological issues in epilepsy are limited ...

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 ...

One of the most important activities from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is to collect information about health conditions, who and how many are affected, and other data that can ...

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 ...

Some concerns faced by people living with epilepsy include taking medications properly, having healthy habits, keeping in mind seizure safety guidelines, and avoiding medications that may worsen your ...

Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) is a genetic disorder that occurs in 1 out of 6,000 people and can involve multiple organs in the body, including the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, eyes, and skin. The ...

Having one neurological diagnosis is hard enough. Add a second and you are sure to feel as if your body is not your own. People living with epilepsy may face loss of consciousness and involuntary ...