Items Tagged ‘seizure’
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All He Wanted Was to Drive: An Epilepsy Success Story
"All I really wanted was to be able to drive," Mike Hickey reflects when asked why he went in for Epilepsy Surgery. He had gotten his drivers license at 16 just like all his friends, "so I knew what it was like," says Mike. All that was lost, however when an unexpected seizure caused him to...
Posted on Sep 20, 2010 by Department Author In Blog, Epilepsy Blog, Movement Disorders Blog -
An Epilepsy Cure Even Your Neurologist May Not Know About
According to Dr, Robert R. Goodman from the Epilepsy Center, there is a surgical cure for certain types of epilepsy that many patients and their neurologists don't know about. This is particularly true, he says, in cases of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy . Epilepsy is a general term for a group of...
Posted on May 3, 2010 by Department Author In Blog, Epilepsy Blog -
Epilepsy & Seizures
About 10 percent of all people, approximately eight million Americans, may experience a seizure during their lifetimes. It is estimated that one to three percent of the population has recurrent seizures, or epilepsy, or seizure disorder. Causes Sometimes, a clear cause of epilepsy can be...