When a doctor or nurse suspects something is wrong with a patient's heart, there's a simple way to check: put a stethoscope over the heart and listen to the sounds it makes. Doctors and nurses can use ...

Approximately 10% of people will experience at least one seizure during their lifetime. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images The dramatic and incapacitating nature of seizures is ...

A recent study characterizes silent seizures in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome and identifies a new brain area that could be targeted to stop them. As early as 3 months of age, infants with a severe ...

A challenge to detect and difficult to treat, these non-convulsive seizures often go unnoticed by parents and physicians. A recent study, published in the journal Cell Reports, characterizes these ...

Hollywood tends to depict all seizures with great drama as generalized convulsions. In the real world of an intensive care unit, they can go unnoticed without overt signs. And if the seizures are ...

Every day before I walk out the door, I check my pockets for my keys and wallet to make sure I have everything I need for the day. Growing up, I saw my parents and many other adults do the same and ...

Mice genetically engineered to have a disease like Alzheimer’s have “silent” seizures that appear related to cellular changes involving the excess accumulations of the protein amyloid beta, said ...

Silent seizures often go unnoticed, but they can cause brain damage in certain cases. With proper diagnosis of this condition taking hours or even days, Stanford University scientists went looking for ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--January 2, 2019--As early as 3 months of age, infants with a severe form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome start having convulsive seizures, during which their arms and legs jerk ...