A convulsion is an episode in which you experience rigidity and uncontrolled muscle spasms along with altered consciousness. The spasms cause jerky motions that generally last a minute or two.

Seizures are caused by chemical changes in your body that affect the way your nerve cells talk to one another. This leads to sudden electrical activity inside your brain that can last a few seconds or ...

The app, called EpiWatch, works on the Apple Watch and has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is ...

Convulsions are rapid, involuntary muscle contractions that cause uncontrollable shaking and limb movement. Convulsions are common in epileptic seizures but can also result from infections, fever, and ...

Normally, your brain sends signals through your nervous system in a predictable, organized way. But sometimes, these signals get mixed up and cause a seizure. You might experience a seizure as a ...

The neonatal period is the most vulnerable of all periods of life for developing seizures. Whenever any parent hears that their baby is having convulsions or seizures the parents' first reaction is ...

Your seizure threshold is one factor that influences your likelihood of having a seizure. People with epilepsy tend to have a lower seizure threshold, meaning they’re more likely to have seizures.

A febrile seizure is a convulsion that can occur when a child has a fever, usually as a result of infection. The seizure often occurs during the first day of a fever, which is defined as a temperature ...

The older term "ether convulsions" is inappropriate since these attacks have been described as occurring as well under anesthesia employing nitrous oxide and oxygen, chloroform, vinethene, ethylene ...

Dr. Nathan C. Praschan (Psychiatry): A 27-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of convulsions. The patient had been in his usual state of health until 2 years before this admission, when ...

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Kishore Kumar, Neonatologist and Pediatrician at Cloudnine Group of Hospitals in Bengaluru, explained, “Neonatal convulsions are abnormal movements of the body or ...