Seizure First Aid: What to Do During an Epileptic Episode
During a convulsive seizure, the most important thing is keeping the person safe from injury: move away any hard or sharp objects, cushion their head with something soft, and time how long the seizure lasts. Never try to restrain them or place anything in their mouth...
Epilepsy in Adults: Can You Develop Seizures Later in Life?
Adults can certainly develop epilepsy for the first time in their fifties, sixties, or even seventies. In older adults, new-onset seizures are often triggered by underlying conditions such as stroke, brain tumors, head injuries, or degenerative diseases rather than...
Guillain-Barré Syndrome Recovery Timeline
Guillain-Barré syndrome typically rolls through a three-phase pattern where symptoms get progressively worse over days to four weeks, plateau for several weeks to months with basically nothing changing, then gradually improve over months to years, with most folks...
Autoimmune Encephalitis: Symptoms That Mimic Mental Illness
Autoimmune encephalitis often begins with sudden personality changes, hallucinations, paranoia, or unusual behavior resembling schizophrenia or bipolar disorder leading to misdiagnosis and weeks of antipsychotic treatment before seizures, severe memory impairment, or...
Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Advances in 2026
Heavy-hitting disease-modifying drugs like ocrelizumab and natalizumab have become the standard starting point in Bangalore hospitals by 2026, ditching that old escalation nonsense where doctors would start you on wimpy medications and only upgrade after you’d...