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 ...

In a three-way test, a 50-year-old drug has edged out two newer ones for treatment of a kind of epilepsy that causes children to gaze off into space. The new study provides much-needed data for ...

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Patients were seen by one of us, either as clinic or as office patients in the Seizure Unit of the Children's Medical Center in Boston. The series, like that of Doyle, Livingston and Pearson, 9 is ...

Q: My 8-year-old granddaughter is a bright, active, lovable child, but she has a habit of drifting off to a distant place even when someone is talking to her. These spells were increasing, and her ...

EPILEPSY is a health-related disability whose causation is often associated with witchcraft in the context of Zimbabwe. But from the lens of scientific knowledge systems, witchcraft cannot be ...

It is not uncommon for parents to describe their child as a 'dreamer.' They may notice situations in which the child stares blankly, appears disconnected from their surroundings or fails to respond ...