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Artificial Intelligence and Epilepsy: The Promise & Pitfalls of AI in Diagnosing Epilepsy and Treatment

This month on Seizing Life® we explore artificial intelligence as it relates to epilepsy care, how it’s impacting the process of diagnosing epilepsy and treatment today, and what it promises for the future.
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One Family, Two Different Epilepsy Diagnoses

This week on Seizing Life® we speak with Mary and Tom Nugent, parents of 3 young men, two of whom have grown-up with epilepsy. With one son severely impacted from infancy and another diagnosed at the age of 9, the Nugents have experienced the vastly different impacts of epilepsy in the microcosm of their own household.
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EEG Testing: Its Critical Role in Diagnosing Epilepsy, Treatment, and Research

On this episode of Seizing Life, CURE Post-Traumatic Epilepsy Initiative Grantee Dr. Jeffrey Loeb from the University of Illinois at Chicago explains how EEG data is used in diagnosing, treating, and researching epilepsy.
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Older Adults and Epilepsy: the Causes, the Signs, and the Treatments

This week on Seizing Life® Dr. Laura O’Dwyer joins us to talk about the fastest growing segment of people living with epilepsy in the United States – older adults. Dr. O’Dwyer explains why adults are more likely to develop epilepsy later in life, outlines the challenges of recognizing, diagnosing, and treating epilepsy in older adults, and provides valuable information for older adults living with epilepsy and their caregivers.
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Rare Epilepsy: Collaborating for Advocacy, Research, and Community

This week on Seizing Life ®, Yssa DeWoody of Ring14 USA and the Rare Epilepsy Network (REN) joins us to provide a primer on rare epilepsies. Yssa explains what rare epilepsies are and how they are diagnosed, potential treatments, and the particular challenges for those impacted.
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Growing Up Alongside a Sibling with Epilepsy

This week on Seizing Life, we speak with two CURE Epilepsy Education Enrichment Fund Scholars about their experiences growing up with a sibling who has epilepsy. Emma Cardwell and Nathan Bliss share their siblings’ diagnoses and how this affected their respective families and themselves in both challenging and inspirational ways.
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Helping Your Teen Navigate Epilepsy

This week on Seizing Life we speak with Angie Froehlich about parenting a teenager with epilepsy. Angie’s daughter Chloe was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 12.
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A Parent’s Guide to Your Child’s Epilepsy Diagnosis and Treatment

This week on Seizing Life ®, Dr. Doug Nordli, Chief of Pediatric Neurology at UChicago Medicine, provides a guide to help parents navigate diagnosing epilepsy in their children and understand the treatment journey.
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Raising A Child with Both Autism and Epilepsy

On this week’s episode of Seizing Life, we speak with author, journalist, and mother Liane Kupferberg Carter. Liane’s son Mickey was diagnosed with autism at 5 years old, and several years later received an additional diagnosis of epilepsy.
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Growing Up and Gaining Independence with Epilepsy

Caroline Pratt was diagnosed with epilepsy at 8 years old.  Now 17, Caroline has battled seizures and the physical and emotional impacts. But with Caroline now attending college and living away from home for the first time, both parent and child have had to make concessions and changes within their relationship.