It's a good idea to speak to your roommate about epilepsy and your need for daily medicine. Roommates are like extensions of family members and it's important that you feel comfortable taking your ...

This year, the Epilepsy Therapy Project, located in Middleburg, Virginia, is a Charity Partner with this legendary race. In an effort to raise awareness for epilepsy and the urgent need for new ...

Brain cells either excite or inhibit (stop) other brain cells from sending messages. Usually there is a balance of cells that excite and those that can stop these messages. However, when a seizure ...

A special person in my support system is the person I was able to say, “I do” on my wedding day. As a teenager, I was not sure I would be able to share my life with someone else. My wife has witnessed ...

Patients with deficits in initiation have problems getting started with their behavior. Often they cannot come up with a plan of what to do with themselves. They do not talk very often. They do not do ...

Dr. Rotenberg’s program is based upon the premise that seizures may be managed by applying deep magnetic stimulation delivered around the head by the H-Coil technology to areas of the brain such as ...

After starting to see the neurologist, he confirmed the “sensations” that I had been experiencing since 2019 were seizures. My seizure triggers were not what people commonly think of when they think ...

Marc A. Dichter, MD, PhD, is Professor of Neurology and Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His areas of expertise include: seizures and epilepsy, epileptogenesis, status ...

We went on to hold three readings of the play. One at a theater in New Jersey, one for the League of Professional Theatre Women in NYC, and one was an awareness-raising play at Cornerstone, Montclair, ...

Although we were anxious about the unpredictable nature and severity of Bryan’s seizures, we derived a sense of comfort knowing that we could be there physically and emotionally to help Bryan during ...

For 25-year-old former NASCAR driver Matt Tifft, taking a detour from his racing career due to an epilepsy diagnosis was not in the plan. Nevertheless, Tifft went from driving in the NASCAR Cup series ...

Eventually, I was given a name for what was happening inside me: Left Mesial Temporal Sclerosis—a form of scarring deep in the left temporal lobe of my brain, right inside the hippocampus. That’s the ...