An absence seizure causes you to blank out or stare into space for a few seconds ... Coping with discrimination and stigma. Children and adults with epilepsy may face discrimination. They struggle to ...

In the United States, nearly three million adults 18 years and older reported having active epilepsy during 2021 and 2022.

When Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce died in 2019, his death was ruled a sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, otherwise known as SUDEP. Boyce, then 20, experienced his first seizure at almost 17, ...