This week epilepsy advocate and mother Kate Neale Cooper explains how a new diagnostic tool enabled doctors to localize her daughter’s seizures after 16-years and ultimately perform successful epilepsy surgery.
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Growing Up with Epilepsy Leads to Making Movies About It
Filmmaker Miles Levin discusses growing-up with epilepsy and turning his experiences into the award-winning short film “Under the Lights”.
Inflammation’s Role in Epilepsy and How it Might be Prevented
This week on Seizing Life, epilepsy researcher Dr. Nicholas Varvel explains the connection between inflammation and epilepsy, the promising research being done, and the potential treatment.
A Parent’s Guide to Your Child’s Epilepsy Diagnosis and Treatment
Child neurologist, Dr. Doug Nordli provides a guide for parents of children with epilepsy to help navigate diagnosis, physicians, and treatment decisions.
Epilepsy Stories and the Research Making a Difference
This week on Seizing Life we present personal stories of three key areas of epilepsy research: Post-Traumatic Epilepsy, SUDEP, and Drug-Resistant epilepsy.
Rare Epilepsy: Collaborating for Advocacy, Research, and Community
Yssa DeWoody of Ring14 USA and the Rare Epilepsy Network provides a primer on rare epilepsies: what they are, how they are diagnosed and treated, and where to find resources and support.
Monitoring Mental Health in Kids with Epilepsy
We focus on mental health in children and teens with epilepsy. Pediatric neuropsychologist Madison Berl discussers potential issues and what to do.
A Remarkable Journey to Seizure Freedom Through the Ketogenic Diet
This week on Seizing Life® Jim Abrahams, creator of some of the biggest comedy films of all-time, shares his son’s troubling and remarkable epilepsy journey to seizure freedom through the ketogenic diet.
A Post-Traumatic Epilepsy Journey: Diagnosis Acceptance Leads to Career Helping Others
Mark DeFee shares his years-long journey with post-traumatic epilepsy from his diagnosis following multiple concussions, through his years of denial in college, to his acceptance and efforts to manage his seizures.
Finding Solutions and Pursuing Passions with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
This week on Seizing Life ®, Channing Seideman shares her epilepsy story from her first seizure to a diagnosis of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and tells us how she found safe ways to continue skiing and horseback riding.