New-onset adult seizures may be due to stroke, high blood sugar, alcohol use or withdrawal, and several other medical conditions. If you had a first-time seizure as an adult, it may be a sign of ...

Frequent cannabis users with drug-resistant epilepsy have more convulsive seizures and require more antiseizure medications, ...

Adults with Down syndrome and epilepsy face a significantly higher risk of developing all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease.

Adults with hard-to-treat epilepsy who used cannabis most days had more than twice as many convulsive seizures per year and ...

UK HealthCare is the hospitals and clinics of the University of Kentucky. But it is so much more. It is more than 10,000 dedicated healthcare professionals committed to providing advanced subspecialty ...

Could regular marijuana use make epilepsy worse? A new study suggests it might.

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Management of epilepsy requires an individualized, longitudinal approach that incorporates seizure type, recurrence risk, comorbidities, lifestyle, reproductive planning, and safety implications of ...

Family physicians play a central role in the longitudinal management of epilepsy that extends beyond seizure control to address medication adherence, comorbidity screening, lifestyle counseling, and ...

Children and young adults with severe forms of epilepsy that does not respond to standard antiepileptic drugs have fewer seizures when treated with purified cannabinoid, according to a multi-center ...

The CDC reports that one in 100 U.S. adults has active epilepsy, and studies suggest that one third of these are not receiving adequate treatment or care. 30 Although this recent report did not look ...