Q: My child was staring off into space, and I thought he just wasn’t paying attention. He didn’t respond to his name and seemed frozen for about 10 seconds, then just resumed playing like nothing ...

Absence seizures, more common in children than in adults are characterised by brief, sudden unconsciousness and may make the person look like staring into space for a few seconds. Usually, no physical ...

An absence seizure is where you experience a short period of “blanking out” or staring into space for a few seconds. The seizures usually last for such a short time that no-one notices them, even the ...

(NewsNation) — March 26 is Purple Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about epilepsy worldwide. An estimated 50 million people worldwide are diagnosed with epilepsy, and seizures are the main ...

The eyes are not fully functional during absence seizures as the visual cortex is in a significantly less active state during absence seizures compared to convulsive seizures, research at the Baylor ...

Scientists believed that absence seizures — the brief loss of consciousness often mistaken for day-dreaming — was caused by a localized disruption of brain activity. A new Yale study finds the entire ...

At first, the teacher described her six-year-old student as absentminded, a daydreamer. The boy was having difficulty paying attention in class. As the teacher watched the boy closely, she realized ...

The areas of the cerebral cortex that are affected in mice with absence epilepsy have been pinpointed by research that also shows that transplanting embryonic neural cells into these areas can ...

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