MEXICO CITY — After years of confiscating rising amounts of fentanyl, the opioid that has fueled the most lethal drug epidemic in American history, U.S. officials are confronting a new and puzzling ...

Absence seizure, formerly known as petit mal seizure, is a type of short seizure that usually causes a person to briefly lose focus, stare into space, and lose awareness of their surroundings. These ...

A 14-year-old girl from Andover, Massachusetts turned a personal moment into a powerful invention that could bring peace of mind to those with epilepsy and their families. At first glance, Sarah Wang ...

In 1994, a coalition of experts in brain health and epilepsy published a consensus statement on the appropriate criteria for driver licensing for people with epilepsy. Issued by the American Academy ...

The first updated guidelines for seizures, driving licensure, and medical reporting in nearly two decades reflect a shift toward medical advisory boards to determine driver licensing for individuals ...

A Republican senator suffered a seizure and a brain bleed after slipping and falling on ice in North Dakota over the weekend. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said he is resting and recovering at home in ...

One in 10 Americans live with a rare disease, which often lack effective treatments. Such is the case for PIGA-CDG, an ultra-rare genetic disease that causes seizures and developmental delays.

If you or a loved one has experienced a seizure, you know how scary they can be. The uncontrolled jolting, stiffening of the body, and even loss of consciousness can be unnerving under the best of ...

In temporal lobe epilepsy — a common and debilitating form of the disorder — seizures often cause those affected to lose consciousness. But why that happens has been unclear. In a new study, Yale ...

Optogenetics employs a harmless virus to deliver light-sensitive genes to a particular set of neurons in the brain that can then be switched on and off with pulses of light. In a first, UC researchers ...

Jonquetta Winbush was driving her vehicle with her two children inside when she had a seizure and drove into a pond Charmaine Patterson is an Associate Editor at PEOPLE. She first began working at ...

More than a decade after her original diagnosis, she suddenly had episodes of losing consciousness. Was this a different type of seizure? By Lisa Sanders, M.D. “I’m feeling a little stroke-y,” the ...