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Head Trauma and Epilepsy: Brain Injuries and the Risk for Seizure Disorders
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What Are Generalized Seizures?
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Getting Started on MyEpilepsyTeam
Tell your story, find your people, share and receive
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Severe Epilepsy Topic Center
Learn about types of severe epilepsy
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Your Guide to Epilepsy: Symptoms, Treatments, and More
Your Guide to Epilepsy: Symptoms, Treatments, and More
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Your Guide to Rescue Therapy for Seizures
Learn about rescue therapy for seizures.
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Focal Seizures Topic Center
Focal Seizures: Types and Treatments
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Recent articles
What Are Generalized Seizures?
Generalized seizures are a type of epilepsy that affects up to 40 percent of people with...
What Are Metabolic Disorders, and How Can They Cause Epilepsy?
Metabolism is the chemical reaction in the body’s cells that changes food into energy. It’s a...
What You May Not Know About Abdominal Epilepsy
Abdominal epilepsy is a very rare type of temporal lobe epilepsy. This form of epilepsy is most...
Bone Density and Epilepsy: Are Antiepileptic Drugs a Risk for Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a medical condition in which bones lose density, becoming weak and brittle. This...
Stopping Seizures: Your Rescue Treatment Options
A person can use seizure rescue treatments in addition to their regular antiepileptic drugs...
Why You Need a Seizure Rescue Treatment on Hand
People use seizure rescue medications — a form of seizure rescue treatment — for seizures that...
Seizure Rescue Medications at School and Work: How To Prepare
Seizure rescue medications for epilepsy are commonly prescribed to prevent a seizure emergency,...
Evaluating Your Options for Epilepsy Surgery
Controlling epilepsy is not always easy. However, uncontrolled seizures can be dangerous for a...
What You Need To Know About Gelastic Seizures: Symptoms and Treatment
Gelastic seizures (GS) — also called gelastic epilepsy — are a rare type of epilepsy that...
Dissociative Events Explained
Dissociative events — sometimes known as “dissociative seizures” — are not epileptic seizures....
