Studies conducted by American Academy of Family Physicians reveal that about 1 percent of the population suffers from seizures induced epilepsy. And though women and men both are affected similarly, but research…
Interrelation between Precocious Puberty and Gelastic Seizures
Puberty, habitually happening during adolescence, is when kids develop emotionally and physically into young men and women. Typically, girls show sign of puberty no earlier than 8 to 13 years of age…
Treatment Options for Gelastic Epilepsy
Gelastic epilepsy is a rare epileptic condition that usually occurs because of a small benign tumor formation in the hypothalamus part of the brain. In the last decade, there is a rise…
Gelastic Epilepsy
Gelastic epilepsy is a rare form of epilepsy in which a person experiences ‘gelastic’ seizures. ‘Gelastic’ is a Greek word derived from “Gelastikos” which means laughter. This epilepsy syndrome is more visible…
Is Melatonin Effective in Epilepsy?
Epilepsy is a known neurological disorder that has affected millions of people worldwide. There is a constant struggle to find the right treatment for epilepsy as the root cause behind this neurological…
Migraine vs. Photosensitive Epilepsy
Ictal headache and photosensitive seizures are often diagnosed incorrectly as migraine or what people call it, “miralepsy” is most unlikely to happen but an “epilepsy-migraine sequence” exists and is well acknowledged than…
Photosensitive Epilepsy
“Viewers are warned that the program contains flash cinematography.” It’s a common message we often come across when playing video games, watching videos on YouTube or watching a high graphical movie in…
Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Treatment
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy or JME is characterized by the presence of petit mal seizures (also known as absence seizures), grand mal seizures (also known as generalized tonic-clonic seizures) and myoclonic convulsions. It…
What is West Syndrome?
West Syndrome is basically an epileptic condition that generally attack infants. This condition is known to be absolutely uncommon and rare. If we were to visit history we will come to know…
Intractable Epilepsy
When epilepsy is uncontrolled, it shows the continuous manifestation of an intolerable quantity of seizures despite judicious treatment. The amount of seizures considered intolerable reliant on the patient’s lifestyle, the nature of…