“Do you know why you shouldn’t talk to strangers?” asks a police officer standing at the front of a classroom to a room full of students. Emily’s hand shoots up and the teacher encourages her to ...

Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is a common paediatric epilepsy syndrome characterised by brief, sudden lapses of consciousness accompanied by bilateral, synchronous 3 Hz spike-and-wave discharges on ...

The unpredictable, debilitating nature of a seizure can be frightening, for both the person experiencing it and anyone watching nearby. In that moment, control often slips away as muscles stiffen, ...

“How could I explain that I wasn’t being rude, and that I couldn’t control my ‘daydreams?’” A need exists for a better understanding of how absence epilepsy develops and how it can be treated. As ...