epilepsy

Billy Caldwell, from Castlederg in County Tyrone, has a severe form of epilepsy, which at one point had him suffering hundreds of "life-threatening" seizures a day.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

When Susan Jamison was diagnosed with epilepsy as a teenager in 1986, sodium valproate felt like a lifeline.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Rapamycin reversed abnormal patterns of gene expression involving autism, epilepsy, and ion channel function.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

The recordings were made while patients undergoing epilepsy surgery were under general anesthesia.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026

Black men, women, and children suffering with everything from dementia and tuberculosis to “nervousness,” “lack of self-confidence,” and epilepsy were packed into every conceivable space, including windowless basement rooms and barred-in porches.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

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

In contrast to many of the focal epilepsies, it is the inhibitory response of interneurons that fuels absence seizures.

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

And it is probable, that the violent pains, which induce convulsions in painful epilepsies, are produced in the same manner, from a more sensible part sympathizing with a diseased one of less sensibility.

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