Soldiers with brain injuries at higher risk of epilepsy decades later

A recent study at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, suggest that soldiers who receive traumatic brain injuries during war may be at a higher risk of epilepsy even decades after the brain injury occurred.

The study also found that the type of seizure changed over time, often becoming more severe (or causing loss of consciousness).

The new research is published in the July 20, 2010, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.