Find out how seizures are classified, or grouped together and how they may impact a child.
Read about the symptoms and causes of absence seizures and how best to help your child when they have one.
Read about the symptoms and causes of focal aware seizures (previously known as simple partial seizure) and how they are treated.
Read about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of neonatal seizures.
Read about the causes, symptoms and treatments for generalized epilepsy syndromes.
Read about causes and symptoms of myoclonic seizures and how they are treated.
Read about the causes and symptoms of atonic seizures, or “drop attacks”, and how they are treated.
Read about the signs and symptoms of different types of seizures.
Read about the causes and symptoms of absence epilepsy and how the condition is treated.
Read about causes and symptoms of focal impaired awareness seizures and how they are treated.
Learn about what causes seizures, the different types of seizures and what the concept of the seizure threshold means.
An overview of seizures and epilepsy, with information about treatment options.
Tonic-clonic seizures involve sudden muscle stiffening and contraction, and rhythmic twitching or jerking. Read about their causes and how they can be treated.
Read about the causes, symptoms and treatments for epileptic encephalopathies and progressive syndromes.
Read about the causes and features of temporal lobe epilepsies as well as how they are treated and the long-term outlook.
Read about the symptoms, prevention, first aid treatment and proper care for a child experiencing febrile seizures.
Read about the symptoms of self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (SeLECTS) as well as treatments and long-term outlook.
Read about the causes and symptoms of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome epilepsy and how the condition is treated.
Read about the causes, symptoms and treatments for focal epilepsies in children.
Learn about the four different ketogenic diet therapies for childhood epilepsy, which may be tried when medication has failed to control seizures and surgery is not an option.
Read about what to do in case of a seizure to ensure your child's safety and comfort.
Read an overview of the surgical process, from determining if your child is a candidate for surgery to post-operative care.
Read about the types of epilepsy and the suggested treatments.
Read about the causes, symptoms and treatments for Landau-Kleffner syndrome.
Read about the causes and symptoms of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and how the condition is treated.
