Doctors are warning about a form of epilepsy with symptoms so subtle most sufferers don’t realize they have it – after the sudden death of a YouTube star.
Epilepsy – which sees the brain’s signaling system go haywire – affects a deceptively large number of Americans, around one in 25.
A subset of them have what has been dubbed ‘silent seizures’, or absence seizures, which often go undiagnosed for years and can be potentially life-threatening.