At first, he would see a colorful circle. It would grow a shimmering, flashing tail “dripping” down, which he compared to fireworks. “It’s beautiful!” he said of one of these episodes – but they gave ...

Diffuse lesions involving the posterior quadrant (PQ) of the cerebral hemisphere (temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes) induce intractable epilepsy. These patients are potential candidates for ...

Objective: To elucidate the presence and potential involvement of brain inflammation and cell death in neurological morbidity and intractable seizures in childhood epilepsy, we quantified cell death, ...

This is an epilepsy that is idiopathic and typically begins in children between 3 and 13 years of age. Most commonly it starts before onset of puberty. There are simple partial seizures that involve ...

The largest part of the brain, the cerebrum, is divided into four paired sections, called lobes -- the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes. Each lobe controls a specific group of ...

LAST night after I finished work I did something I’ve never done before - complained to Ofcom. I’ve got occipital lobe epilepsy - epilepsy that starts in the visual lobe of the brain - and take an eye ...