September 21, 2010 (San Francisco, California) — Some patients with cryptogenic partial seizures refractory to traditional antiepileptic medications may have "autoimmune epilepsy" — epilepsy ...

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Autoimmune epilepsy is a newly defined group of conditions characterized by recurrent seizures associated with autoimmunity. Cancer and infections are two potential triggers. Epilepsy is a seizure ...

The researchers of a single-center study found that the relationships between epilepsy and autoimmune diseases may be a result of the different etiopathogenetic mechanisms that underly seizure ...

Professor Paul Nwani, the neurologist at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, is the President of the Nigerian League against Epilepsy. In this interview with Sade Oguntola, he ...

Observational data point to a relationship between the vascular system and epilepsy beyond the brain. Among people ages 40 and older, heart attack survivors had a disproportionately greater risk of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although seizures are more likely in people with Alzheimer disease (AD) than in the general population, they are not a common feature of AD, new research indicates. In a ...

Slowly and inexorably, Alzheimer’s disease steals a person away. Taking memory and cognitive abilities. Pilfering personality and social skills. Robbing a person of the ability to care for herself.

Temporal lobe epilepsy can trigger intense religious or spiritual experiencesSeizure type and brain area influence mystical ...

Evidence of bidirectional associations between incident late-onset epilepsy and incident myocardial infarction (MI) emerged in a cohort of stroke-free middle-age and older adults. In the Northern ...