Department of Neurology
We will post some of the questions and answers on a regular basis. Please note that we are unable to provide diagnoses or specific recommendations about your illness.
- Should a single photoconvulsive seizure be treated?
- Are migraines related to seizures?
- Are seizures related to rage attacks?
- My daughter has epilepsia partialis continua
- What is a cell migrational disorder?
- Should parents make the decision to treat?
- Is felbamate still available?
- What questions should I ask my doctor?
- What are the side effects of acetazolamide (Diamox)?
- Using the magnet trigger for vagus nerve stimulation in developmentally disabled persons
- Ethosuximide (Zarontin) is ineffective for tonic-clonic seizures
- What is the post-ictal state?
- What is the difference between seizures and epilepsy?
- Time-release therapies for epilepsy
- Reluctance to treat seizures
- Cough-induced seizures
- What are secondary generalized seizures?
- Is epilepsy hereditary?
- Sudden unexplained death in epilepsy
- For what types of seizures is ethosuximide (Zarontin) effective?
- Seizures and menstruation
- How is epilepsy diagnosed?
- Patient assistance programs for obtaining anti-seizure medications
- What are guidelines for stopping antiepileptic drugs?
- Is my son a candidate for vagus nerve stimulation?
- Long-term effects of Dilantin
- Therapy for myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
- Is my daughter's dizziness caused by epilepsy?
- Dilantin and gum disease
- Is epilepsy contagious?
- Diagnosis of hypoglycemic seizures
- Mesial sclerosis of the temporal lobe and surgery
- What is tiagabine (Gabitril)?
- Anticonvulsants and pain
- Funding for epilepsy agencies
- Teachers with epilepsy
- Epilepsy surgery for grand mal seizures
- Hypoglycemia and seizures
- Is there nothing else to be done?
- Dividing doses of seizure medications
- Epilepsy in the elderly
- Re-emergence of epilepsy
- Depakote and pancreatitis
- "Therapeutic" levels
- Vagus nerve stimulation therapy for epilepsy
- Are they auras or seizures?
- Antiepileptic drug therapy and pregnancy
- Epilepsy and denial
- Complex febrile seizures
- Medically resistant epilepsy in India
- Even "small seizures" can be disabling
- How do strobe lights cause seizures?
- Did a seizure occur?
- Do I still have Rolandic Epilepsy?
- Absence seizures resistant to Zarontin
- Non-medication treatment of epilepsy
- Computer monitor flicker and seizures
- Lamictal and Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
- Depakote and GABA
- First seizure in a teen
- Medication stretching
- Antiepileptic medications and pediatric use
- New onset of seizures
- True or false seizures
- Head injury and seizures
- Special studies and well controlled epilepsy
- Seizures and air pressure
- Tegretol and teeth
- Myoclonic epilepsy in teens
- Does Prozac help or cause seizures?
- What is abdominal epilepsy?
- Undiagnosed nocturnal spells
- Antiepileptic drugs and developmental delay
- Strobe lights and seizures
- What is Rolandic epilepsy?
- The "split-brain" procedure
- When can I drive again?
- The future of epilepsy therapy
- Employment and epilepsy
- Faints or seizures?
- Breakthrough seizures
- Where can I obtain information about epilepsy?
- Support groups
- Are grand mal seizures more frequent at night?
- Daily staring spells
- Does an EEG diagnose epilepsy?
- Jacksonian seizures
- Sleep deprivation and epilepsy
- West Syndrome and complex partial seizures
- Startle epilepsy
- Too quick to medicate?
- Negative studies and diagnosis of epilepsy
- Myoclonic epilepsy and prognosis
- Craniotomy and seizures
- Can coma be caused by seizures?
- Undiagnosed spells
- EEG and seizures during menstrual periods
- Abdominal pain and epilepsy
- When is epilepsy controlled?
- Obtaining information on lamotrigine (Lamictal)
- Sickhouse syndrome and epilepsy
- Gamma knife and epilepsy surgery
- Why do I have seizures?
- Long-term therapy with Dilantin
- Surgery for non-intractable epilepsy
- Nocturnal epilepsy
- Absence seizures
- Sleep and seizures
- Memory and epilepsy