May 1, 2024 / Dr. Rebecca O'Dwyer
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.
April 3, 2024 / Laura Beretsky
This month on Seizing Life® author Laura Beretsky shares her decades-long journey with epilepsy, from diagnosis at age 6, through college, parenting, fighting discrimination in the workplace, and ultimately seizing control of her epilepsy via life-changing surgery.
March 6, 2024 / Jamilah Doyle
This month on Seizing Life® a nurse and mother shares her young son’s journey from the onset of focal seizures to a devastating diagnosis of Rasmussen’s Encephalitis to a life-changing brain surgery.
February 7, 2024 / Dr. Daniel Goldenholz
This month on Seizing Life® we explore artificial intelligence as it relates to epilepsy care, how it’s impacting epilepsy diagnosis and treatment today, and what it promises for the future.
December 13, 2023 / Annette Adkins
This 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.
Rare Epilepsies
December 27, 2023 / Dr. Justin West and Liz Ramirez
This week on Seizing Life® we speak with two rare epilepsy organizations, The KCNT1 Epilepsy Foundation and The Cute Syndrome Foundation, in an episode recorded at Epilepsy Awareness Day at Disneyland this past November.
November 23, 2023 / Dr. Chris Dulla
This week on Seizing Life®, in recognition of Infantile Spasms Awareness Week (December 1st – 7th), we speak with epilepsy researcher Dr. Chris Dulla about infantile spasms – what we know, what recent research has revealed, and how current research may lead to better detection and treatments.
November 15, 2023 / Dr. Elizabeth Gerard
This week on Seizing Life® we speak with Dr. Elizabeth Gerard about impacts, challenges, and concerns specific to women living with epilepsy. From puberty to menstruation, contraception, pregnancy, and menopause, Dr. Gerard provides information and insights on managing epilepsy as a woman through all stages of life.
November 1, 2023 / Peter Burpee
This week on Seizing Life® we speak with Peter Burpee who experienced absence epilepsy in childhood and tonic clonic seizures in his teen years, but has gained seizure control and will be running in the upcoming NYC Marathon to raise money for epilepsy research.