Dravet syndrome and the influence of the genome: Dr. Sanjay Sisodiya
Send comments and feedback Dravet syndrome is a rare, severe epilepsy caused by changes in a gene called SCN1A. The changes cause the gene to stop functioning normally. But not everyone with this type...
9 Okt 202326min
Attorney turned author pens an epilepsy-focused novel: Sara Staggs
Send comments and feedback Sara Staggs was a civil rights attorney and pregnant with her second child when her doctors told her to stop practicing law: her seizures had become too frequent. Staggs' 20...
25 Sep 202330min
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, seizures, and epilepsy: Dr. Brin Freund
Send comments and feedback We'll frame today's talk around a paper recently published in the European Journal of Neurology: "The incidence and risk factors associated with seizures in cerebral amyloi...
11 Sep 202321min
Research recap: Modified Atkins diet and health-related quality of life - Dr. Magnhild Kverneland
Send comments and feedback Diet treatments are often used with the aim of reducing seizure frequency and severity — but they may have other benefits as well. Findings from a recent study conducted i...
28 Aug 202319min
Statins and epilepsy: Dr. Emilio Russo & Dr. Tony Marson
Send comments and feedback Some published data suggest that besides their effect on cholesterol, statins also may play a neuroprotective role in some neurological disorders, including epilepsy. Dr. Br...
14 Aug 202321min
Caring for someone with functional seizures: Shannon Guinard's story
Send comments and feedback Functional seizures, also known as psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), resemble epileptic seizures. Unlike epilepsy, they are not prompted by any electrical activity i...
31 Jul 202314min
Circadian rhythms and epilepsy Part II: Dr. Maxime Baud
Send comments and feedback Do seizures have daily, weekly, monthly, or other rhythms? In Part 2 of our two-part series on circadian rhythms, Dr. Laurent Sheybani talks with Dr. Maxime Baud about the l...
17 Jul 202333min
Circadian rhythms and epilepsy Part I: Dr. Mark Quigg
Send comments and feedback The cyclic properties of seizures have been known for more than 100 years, but does everyone with epilepsy have a seizure pattern? What can be learned from seizure diaries,...
3 Jul 202331min
