The researchers of a single-center study found that the relationships between epilepsy and autoimmune diseases may be a result of the different etiopathogenetic mechanisms that underly seizure ...

September 21, 2010 (San Francisco, California) — Some patients with cryptogenic partial seizures refractory to traditional antiepileptic medications may have "autoimmune epilepsy" — epilepsy ...

An unprecedentedly precise exploration of the molecular and electrophysiological basis of a form of autoimmune encephalitis, conducted by the “Cellular Excitability and Neuronal Network Dynamics” team ...

IVIG may reduce seizure frequency in some children with drug-resistant epilepsy, especially those with generalized seizures.

The findings from this single-center cross-sectional study, say the researchers, suggest that IL-6 signaling may be a promising target for the treatment of patients with glutamic acid decarboxylase ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two weeks before kindergarten graduation, 5-year-old Nathan Camargo had his first seizure. The El Paso boy was eventually ...

Former Australian athletics champion Tiana Death (pronounced Dee-arthe) has publicly shared her diagnosis of a rare neurological condition, autoimmune encephalitis, two years after she collapsed at ...

Epilepsy presents differently in each person. The condition has a range of symptoms that varies. Convulsions can be one sign of epilepsy. However, people often experience epilepsy without ever having ...