At first, he would see a colorful circle. It would grow a shimmering, flashing tail “dripping” down, which he compared to fireworks. “It’s beautiful!” he said of one of these episodes – but they gave ...

Diffuse lesions involving the posterior quadrant (PQ) of the cerebral hemisphere (temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes) induce intractable epilepsy. These patients are potential candidates for ...

Researchers studied more than 200 children with epilepsy and found that even if the cause of focal-onset seizures cannot be identified and they do not fit into a known epilepsy syndrome, long-term ...

This is an epilepsy that is idiopathic and typically begins in children between 3 and 13 years of age. Most commonly it starts before onset of puberty. There are simple partial seizures that involve ...

LAST night after I finished work I did something I’ve never done before - complained to Ofcom. I’ve got occipital lobe epilepsy - epilepsy that starts in the visual lobe of the brain - and take an eye ...

Affecting around one in 100 people in the UK, this complicated neurological condition is more than an aversion to flashing lights. To mark National Epilepsy Week this year, Anna Roberts - a ...