Researchers used a rodent model to discover that shifting the firing pattern of a particular set of brain cells is all it takes to initiate, or to terminate, an absence seizure. A particular structure ...

A young father suffered a seizure after an undercover policeman put him in a chokehold in the middle of a busy Melbourne shopping centre. Dramatic footage captured at Dandenong Plaza, in the city's ...

The New York City Police Department is under fire after residents at Brooklyn’s Pink Houses accused officers of using a banned choke hold Monday on a teen who seemed to be having some type of seizure ...

Seizures are caused by chemical changes in your body that affect the way your nerve cells talk to one another. This leads to sudden electrical activity inside your brain that can last a few seconds or ...

A seizure is a medical condition that causes abnormal activity and/or body movements after a sudden and uncontrolled disturbance in your brain. Most people associate seizures with a condition called ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — Indianapolis Metropolitan Police say the officer who restrained a man during an epileptic seizure inside a gas station did not violate any department policy or procedures. An ...

Witnessing someone with epilepsy having a seizure can be truly frightening. But most seizures aren't an emergency. They stop on their own with no permanent ill effects. There are simple steps you can ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Lowell Evans has been overcoming epilepsy since he was 20 years old. Now as regional director for the Epilepsy Foundation of Virginia, he said, "I wanted to prove to everybody ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Seizures can happen to anyone. According to a study published by researchers at the CDC, almost one in 100 people have active epilepsy, a ...

A particular structure in the brain is a "choke point" for a type of epileptic seizure that affects mostly children, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have found. The researchers ...