Optimal sleep appears to offer some protection against risk for dementia, with improved effects among people with focal epilepsy.

Nocturnal seizures often cause symptoms like spasms, grunting, and breathing difficulties while sleeping. Increasing sleep by 90 minutes can decrease your seizure risk by 27% over 48 hours.

For people with epilepsy, getting poor sleep was associated with a higher risk of dementia compared to people without ...

Sleep is not passive rest. It is active repair. During deep sleep, the brain resets electrical activity and balances chemicals that keep signals steady.When sleep falls short, that balance weakens.Dr ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new research from Mayo Clinic. The study, published in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 23—ROCHESTER — A recent Mayo Clinic study looked at a process in the brain that, following a seizure, might reinforce future ...

Twenty-year-old Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce died from a fatal seizure, according to his family. While the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner has yet to determine Boyce's ...