epilepsy
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Repeated episodes of an absence seizure over more than 24 hours can be an indication of epilepsy, although the seizures can be treated with medication.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
But life at home is very different from the years when his epilepsy was uncontrolled.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Billy was born with severe life-threatening form of epilepsy that proved extremely difficult to control.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Rapamycin reversed abnormal patterns of gene expression involving autism, epilepsy, and ion channel function.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
He has epilepsy, but trust me when I say it doesn’t keep him from being your typical annoying sixth-grade sibling.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
The mechanism underlying seizures known as absence epilepsies is rather different.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
Electrophysiology insights could guide more sophisticated monitoring of cortical epilepsies and possibly other focal epilepsies as well.
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
Indeed, many epilepsies resemble a perverse imitation of normal activity for a given brain structure — and these lead to some of the distinctions between the pathology and activity associated with different epileptic disorders.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014
Therefore, I am not at all sure that these conceptions will really apply to essential epilepsies or to the real epilepsies.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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