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Pursuing Effective Epilepsy Treatment and Running for Research
Podcast SeriesThis week on Seizing Life® Clare Phelps shares the difficult diagnosis and frustrating treatment journey of her young daughter Sophie, whose epilepsy has so far been treatment resistant.
Music Therapy for Neurologic Conditions: Understanding How It Works
Podcast SeriesDr. Connie Tomaino, music therapist and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, discusses how music therapy is used to treat neurologic conditions and explains what we know about the power of music to heal the brain.
SCN8A and Infantile Spasms: A Mother & Researcher Pursues a New Potential Therapy
Podcast SeriesDr. Madeleine Oudin shares her daughter’s epilepsy journey following a devastating genetic diagnosis and the onset of infantile spasms, and explains how it has impacted her work as a researcher in pursuing a new potential therapy around the SCN8A gene.
Artificial Intelligence and Epilepsy: The Promise & Pitfalls of AI in Diagnosing Epilepsy and Treatment
Podcast SeriesThis 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.
Infantile Spasms Diagnosis and Treatment Journey Inspires Children’s Book
Podcast SeriesThis week on Seizing Life® Kate Kostolansky shares her daughter Charlotte’s infantile spasms diagnosis and treatment journey, and explains how these experiences inspired a children’s book designed to help newly-diagnosed families and those around them better understand infantile spasms.
A Parent’s Guide to Your Child’s Epilepsy Diagnosis and Treatment
Podcast SeriesThis 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.
CBD and Epilepsy: A Promising Treatment
Podcast SeriesCannabidiol (CBD) and epilepsy made headlines, but what do patients and parents need to know about using CBD as a treatment option?
Older Adults and Epilepsy: the Causes, the Signs, and the Treatments
Podcast SeriesDr. 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.
Regenerative Brain Cell Therapy: One Woman’s Journey to Seizure Freedom
Podcast SeriesThis week on Seizing Life® Annette Adkins, who has lived with intractable epilepsy since 2014, discusses the impacts of epilepsy on her professional and personal life, and how it led her to participate in a clinical trial for a new procedure that has brought her seizure freedom.