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COVID-19 is again linked to long-term neurological conditions — and the effect is more pronounced in children

November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the causes of and risk factors for epilepsy.

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting roughly 50 million people around the world. It’s a condition characterised by seizures which involve episodic, abnormal activity in nerve cells in the brain.

The side effects were more noticeable in children than in adults

Researchers studied the health records of more than 150,000 people who developed the flu and Covid

The supermarket has said it is investigating the incident in Liverpool

She suffers up to 150 eyelid myoclonic seizures per day and said the condition seriously impacts her life.

A family have spoken of how they were regularly dismissed over their son's seizures before the Edinburgh Sick Kids diagnosed young Asher with a rare brain condition.

Something like 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. While the majority of these people are able to use medications to manage and prevent their seizures, around one-third don’t respond well to these treatments. In such cases, the only option available to bring seizures under control is to remove the part…

Fourteen-year-old Olivia Anderson was diagnosed with focal epilepsy in 2020 but also has non-epileptic seizures which present concerning symptoms

In the UK, around 1,000 people die from causes related to epilepsy, with many of the deaths thoughts to be avoidable. Here we take a closer look at the condition and some of the early warning signs to be aware of