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Every June 21, the neurology community marks World ALS Awareness Day, a date that serves as a collective reminder that Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a condition where timing genuinely matters. Early recognition of symptoms, timely referral to a specialist, and access to multidisciplinary care all lead to meaningfully better outcomes than delayed diagnosis, and the…

Summer travel can be highly enjoyable and completely safe for individuals living with epilepsy. A neurological condition should never limit your life or recreation, but it does require more careful planning. Successful summer travel with epilepsy does not require you to abandon your plans, but it demands a thoughtful, structured approach. Everyone should focus on…

When most people imagine a seizure, they picture someone falling and convulsing. Temporal lobe epilepsy rarely looks like that, particularly not at first. It is the most common form of focal epilepsy in adults, originating in the temporal lobes, the brain regions responsible for memory consolidation, emotional processing, and language. Seizures arising from this area…

A typical seizure lasts between 30 seconds and two minutes and resolves without intervention. When it doesn’t, the clinical situation changes fundamentally. Status epilepticus is defined as a seizure lasting five minutes or longer, or a series of seizures between which the patient does not return to their baseline level of consciousness. At that threshold,…