epilepsy

He also draws on his own experience of epilepsy to explore the fear of mental disintegration, having written to his doctor in 1867 that he was “afraid of going mad or falling into idiocy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

While Linton has not been diagnosed with an underlying seizure disorder, such as epilepsy, defense attorney Jovan Blacknell said Linton suffered intermittent seizures during her life, including at the time of the wreck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Oliver, who had a mild learning disability and epilepsy, died in 2016 at Southmead Hospital in Bristol after being given anti-psychotic medication that his family had repeatedly warned he should not receive.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

A U.S.-based chain of medbed operators called Tesla BioHealing has been flagged by federal regulators for claiming that its “Life Force Energy” treatments can cure stroke paralysis, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, and terminal cancer.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Ever since then, the dove has been able to give epilepsy to humans.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Electrophysiology insights could guide more sophisticated monitoring of cortical epilepsies and possibly other focal epilepsies as well.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

The mechanism underlying seizures known as absence epilepsies is rather different.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

Still, about 30% of epilepsies do not respond to pharmaceuticals, which prompted the search for alternative treatments.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

But dentate gating seems to break down in temporal-lobe epilepsies affecting the hippocampus, resulting in unrestrained, synchronized firing of granule cells.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

But in some of the adult patients in this disease, as in many epilepsies, I have suspected the remote cause to be a pain of the liver, or of the biliary ducts.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin