In temporal lobe epilepsy — a common and debilitating form of the disorder — seizures often cause those affected to lose consciousness. But why that happens has been unclear. In a new study, Yale ...
A 25-year-old man had experienced complex partial seizures since childhood. The seizures, which featured automatisms and dystonic posturing, had started following a febrile illness with a prolonged ...
A 23 year-old woman presented for evaluation of intractable seizures. Her seizures would typically start with the perception of an odd smell followed by a staring spell. She would remain awake but ...
The temporal lobe is part of the cerebral cortex. It plays a role in memory, enables people to process sound and vision, and is crucial for recognizing objects and language. Dysfunction in the ...
November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, and Indianapolis author and UIndy professor Liz Whiteacre used poetry to raise ...
When it happened to Zac Ernst, it felt like someone was using a wire to feed a belief into his brain. To Lucinda Edwards, everything seemed interconnected, like she finally understood the meaning of ...