Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person develops physical symptoms that are not under voluntary control and are not explained by a neurological disease or another medical ...

Seizures do not get classified as epilepsy unless the seizures are recurrent. A version of this article was first published January 22, 2021, by HCPro's Revenue Cycle Advisor, a sibling publication to ...

Imagine you're just finishing up your lunch break when you suddenly can't move your legs. Up until this point, you were perfectly healthy with no signs of any kind of physical illness. It would be ...

What Is a Seizure and What Is Epilepsy? Seizures, abnormal movements or behavior due to unusual electrical activity in the brain, are a symptom of epilepsy. But not all people who appear to have ...

Psychiatric disorders (MD and/or AD) were detected in approximately 40% of patients with MTLE. Pharmacoresistant epilepsy was significantly linked with comorbid psychiatric disorders. Positive family ...

When Sarah Jay had her first seizure, she was in her mid-20s and working a high-stress job at a call center in Springfield, Mo. "I was going to go on break," she says. "I was heading towards the ...