Your brain contains billions of nerve cells called neurons that communicate with each other by sending and receiving electrical impulses. A seizure occurs when there is sudden abnormal electrical ...

A seizure is a sudden and abnormal burst of electrical activity that triggers different bodily responses - with each response being determined by where in the brain the electrical activity occurs ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which gabapentin is neuroprotective and suppresses acute seizures in this model of ischemic injury in the immature brain. Postnatal day 12 ...

Doctors had just removed a piece of his cranium, implanted electrodes on the surface of his brain, and closed him back up. He waited for a seizure. Blackwell, 49, had his first seizure when he was 11 ...