Medically reviewed by Mary Josephine Hessert, DO Vasovagal syncope is the most common type of fainting, a temporary loss of consciousness. It's a condition that happens when your blood pressure ...

Fainting or Syncope, as known in medical terms, is loss of consciousness. A person who has fainting spells returns to full consciousness, but has no inkling of having lost it in the first place.

Seizures are sudden, uncontrolled CNS discharges, often without triggers, causing immediate unconsciousness, facial changes, frothing, and post-event disorientation. Syncope is brief fainting due to ...

Spirito, P. et al. Syncope and risk of sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circulation 119, 1703–1710 (2009).

Syncope is a common condition. Tilt testing with sublingual nitroglycerin (TT-TNT) provides a test with good specificity and positivity rate in young and old patients. Its use in hypertensive ...

Many languages respect the generalization that some or all unstressed vowels are deleted. This generalization proves elusive in classic Optimality Theory, however. The source of the problem is classic ...