A new study has revealed that a number of patients admitted for treatment of intractable seizures have stress-triggered symptoms rather than a true seizure disorder. The researchers - a team of Johns ...

Based on their clinical experience and observations, physicians and psychologists say that more than one-third of the patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s inpatient epilepsy monitoring ...

A first seizure is a one-time event that can be brought on by a drug or by anesthesia. These seizures usually don't recur. Some seizures may occur on their own, without any trigger. In the majority of ...

Provoked seizures are not considered to be epilepsy, which is defined as two or more unprovoked seizures, and provoked seizures typically do not require long-term treatment with antiseizure medication ...