A tonic-clonic seizure, formerly called a grand mal seizure, is the "classic" type of seizure most people are familiar with. It involves two phases: In the tonic phase, the muscles stiffen and the ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a young Flintshire man following his tragic death from epilepsy. Jamie, from Oakenholt, died suddenly at the age of just 25 due to an epileptic seizure which led to cardiac ...

Doctors revealed the unidentified 8-year-old developed a fever and suffered multiple seizures just days after unknowingly ...

I am writing from my mother’s bedroom in Connecticut. Three years ago, my mom fell down the stairs and broke her hip. She had ...

Grand mal seizures, also known as tonic‐clonic seizures, are full-blown seizures with loss of consciousness where "all the muscles of the body move spastically and erratically," according to VCA ...

Lacosamide displayed efficacy in animal models of partial-onset, pharmacoresistant and generalized tonic-clonic seizures, as well as status epilepticus. Pharmacokinetic studies of lacosamide in ...

A 20–year old student presented following a witnessed GTCS. In the preceding 2 years he had suffered 2 possible seizures and had a history of childhood epilepsy, temporarily treated with Carbamazepine ...

The generalised seizure group will include absence seizures, generalised tonic-clonic seizures and other generalised seizures, which will now include negative myoclonus as seizures. Negative myoclonus ...

This has already been done for generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and the hypothesis was that some of the same characteristics could be found for tonic seizures. The signals were pre-processed by a ...

Having experienced a range of different types of seizures, the focal seizures are the ones that Nic says have been the worst for her. “If I have a tonic-clonic seizure, I don’t know about it. I’m ...