May 5, 2025 / Mike Simmel
This month on Seizing Life® Mike Simmel shares his epilepsy journey, explains how his passion for basketball helped him navigate the impacts of epilepsy, and recounts how a personal experience with epilepsy stigma inspired him to help kids with epilepsy and other challenges.
April 2, 2025 / Dr. Connie Tomaino
Dr. 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.
March 5, 2025 / Dr. Kelly Tyson
This month on Seizing Life® Dr. Kelly Tyson shares her decade-long journey to an epilepsy diagnosis. Despite numerous visits to various medical experts through the years and majoring in neuroscience in college, Kelly was never referred to a neurologist, nor did she recognize the “episodes” she experienced as seizures. Kelly details how she managed these episodes through college, graduate school, and medical school, and reveals the surprising way that she came to realize she was having seizures.
February 5, 2025 / Kay Hanley and John Cowsill
This month Seizing Life® goes on location at the Joey’s Song Freezing Man Festival to speak with Kay Hanley and John Cowsill, two musicians with personal connections to epilepsy who participated in the multiday music festival to raise money for epilepsy research.
January 8, 2025 / Patricia Dean, ARNP
This month on Seizing Life® Patricia Dean, ARNP and the Epilepsy Network Specialist in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, discusses managing the relationship with your child’s epilepsy care team.
December 4, 2024 / Dr. Madeleine Oudin
Dr. 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.
November 6, 2024 / Mike Gomoll
Joey’s Song founder Mike Gomoll shares his son’s epilepsy story and discusses the creation, growth, and evolution of Joey’s Song into the multi-artist, multi-day, “Freezing Man Festival.”
October 2, 2024 / Lisa Maffie, Bob Maffie, and Austin Maffie
In observance of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Action Day on October 16th, we speak with the Maffie family about the tragic loss of Anthony Maffie to SUDEP and their advocacy and fundraising efforts in Anthony’s honor.
September 4, 2024 / Matthew Summerfield
This month we welcome Matthew Summerfield to the podcast. Matthew has lived with epilepsy since his first seizure at the age of eleven. Though he was advised early on not to tell anyone about his epilepsy, Matthew has refused to be held back by seizures, studying neurosceience as a college undergraduate, and now pursuing a PhD while working in an epilepsy research lab at the University of Iowa.
