Epilepsy is a disorder in which a person has two or more unprovoked seizures. Unprovoked means that the seizures are not provoked by a clear cause such (more)
There are many different types of epilepsy. In fact, we commonly refer to different types of epilepsy as epileptic syndromes...(more)
Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy
Parietal Lobe Epilepsy
Occipital Lobe Epilepsy
Primary Generalized Epiliepy
Idiopathic Partial Epiliepy
Symptomatic Generalized Epilepsy
Reflex Epilepsy
Benign Rolandic Epilepsy
Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
Infantile Spasms
Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
Childhood Absence Epilepsy
Benign Occipital Epilepsy
Mitochondrial Disorders
Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
Rasmussen Syndrome
Hypothalamic Hamartoma & Epilepsy
NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center now offers a women's epilepsy program...(more)
Contraception
Fertility
Planning Before Pregnancy
Risk of Epilepsy in the Baby
Effects of Seizures on the Fetus
Epilepsy and Developmental Disabilities in Adults
Psychogenic Non Epileptic Seizures
A nonepileptic seizure is the result of subconscious mental activity or distress. It is not the result of abnormal brain electrical activity...(more)
Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
Sudden unexplained death in epilepsy is a mysterious, rare condition, better known as SUDEP, in which typically young or middle-aged people with epilepsy die without a clearly defined cause...(more)
