Thank you so much for the information. I think he's very scared about what the underlying cause of the grand mal might be - he's 38 and this is his first seizure (that we are certain of). He's worried the scans will find a brain tumour since we had a friend that died of one - are there any reassuring statistics about how often seizures aren't linked to fatal things like brain tumors or how many seizures are idiopathic that I can tell to him to reduce his stress level? Thank you so much for all your insight.