The blood may even be causing the apparent seizures, according to Dr. Orrin Devinsky, director of the NYU Langone Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. "For some people, fainting mimics seizures," said ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions in the world, yet myths and misconceptions continue to surround it. In many societies, seizures are still wrongly linked to superstition or ...

Grace Bundy dealt with unexplainable fainting and seizures for more than a decade before she learned she had POTS and epilepsy.

This can often be interpreted as a seizure. Forty to seventy percent of patients who are taken to emergency rooms because of an apparent seizure are diagnosed with a simple faint or vasovagal syncope.

My son had a fainting incident at school that resembled a seizure. We went to numerous doctors and had many tests over the years with no answers. After a second school incident, I was determined ...

One of the more difficult problems to differentiate is the difference between syncope and a seizure. Syncope is basically a fainting spell and indicates disruption of oxygen supply to the brain.

While an instance of hair-grooming syncope may certainly be scary for those involved (especially if it involves a seizure), the biggest difference between this condition and other bouts of ...

Either syncope or epilepsy [14–18] are associated to increased risk of sudden unexpected death, particularly if not adequately treated.

The e-mails and tweets came back the moment I’d sent out a message chronicling the latest fainting/seizure at a ‘127 Hours’ screening this week: Is it possible that at least some of this ...

THE present emergency has provided an unusually abundant opportunity for the study of syncope, or fainting, in blood donors. Although not in itself serious, fainting results in loss of time to the ...