Objectives: The aim of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness and tolerability of perampanel (PER) as first add-on and as second line monotherapy in subjects with childhood absence epilepsy.

Idiopathic generalized epilepsy is a group of epilepsies accounting for about 20 to 40% of all epilepsies. This group of epilepsies is clinically characterized by the presence of absence seizures, ...

Kami Kountcheva | The epilepsy community tells all about what absence seizures feel like and we look at some recent research about absence seizures. Seizures are often misinterpreted. Depending on the ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm your host, Dr Andrew Wilner, reporting on the annual American Epilepsy Society meeting. With me today is my ...

Absence Epilepsy accounts for 4 out of 50 people with epilepsy and is curable as most of the children suffering from the disease respond to treatment. Absence Epilepsy -- a disorder in which epilepsy ...

A seizure (SEE-zhur) is unusual electrical activity in the brain. Normally, electrical activity in the brain involves neurons (nerve cells) in different areas sending signals at different times.

1 Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands 2 Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands ...

Summary: During absence seizures, most neurons showed decreased activity. This, researchers say, explains the decrease in brain function and impaired consciousness during an absence epilepsy seizure.

New contributions to the field of epilepsy have opened a window into the cellular events that occur in the brain during absence seizures. At first, the teacher described her six-year-old student as ...

At first, the teacher described her six-year-old student as absentminded, a daydreamer. The boy was having difficulty paying attention in class. As the teacher watched the boy closely, she realized ...