How can mindfulness and meditation be beneficial for managing stress and anxiety related to epilepsy?

Epilepsy is a chronic (long-term) brain condition where a person has repeated seizures. It is thought to affect about 3 in every 100 Australians. What is Epilepsy? ... Facts and figures about epilepsy. Read text for Epilepsy Awareness ... By Lyn Riley and Ericka Martinez ... November 9, 2018 ... Many patients who go on to develop epilepsy after encephalitis will have had seizures during their acute illness, and then continue to have unprovoked seizures ... Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder in which groups of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain sometimes send the wrong signals and cause seizures. Neurons ... A seizure is a burst of uncontrolled electrical activity between brain cells (also called neurons or nerve cells) that causes temporary abnormalities in muscle ... In epilepsy the brain's electrical rhythms have a tendency to become imbalanced, resulting in recurrent seizures. In patients with seizures, the normal ... Jul 9, 2019 ... Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that can affect people of all ages, marked by the tendency of repeated seizures. Epilepsy has several causes including head trauma, brain disorders, and infection, although 50% of the time the cause is unknown. This article reviews the clinical aspects of seizures and epilepsy with the goal of providing neuroscientists an introduction to aspects that might be amenable ... Epileptic encephalopathy is the name used to describe severe cases of epilepsy that result in reduced cognitive and behavioral function.