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The type of seizure you have depends on what area and how much of the brain's electrical activity is affected.

Dear Dr. Donohue: My 8-year-old granddaughter has a habit of drifting off to some distant place, even when someone is talking to her. My daughter took her to a neurologist who diagnosed petit mal ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

About 150,000 new cases of epilepsy are confirmed in the U.S. each year. But the cause of epilepsy – a neurological condition that causes seizures – remains unknown for 6 out of 10 people. Scientists ...

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 ...

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