Africa's plans for improving epilepsy care: Action Amos
Send comments and feedback ILAE spoke with Action Amos, from the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) about plans and strategies for improving epilepsy care across Africa. Leveraged by the Intersec...
23 Apr 202321min
Managing epilepsy in older adults: Dr. Loretta Piccenna & Dr. Rebecca O'Dwyer
Send comments and feedback Dr. Anca Arbune interviews two authors of a recent critical review on managing epilepsy in the elderly, developed by the ILAE Commission on Epilepsy in Older Adults. They di...
10 Apr 202320min
Postpartum morbidity and rehospitalization in women with epilepsy: Research recap
Send comments and feedback Dr. Bruna Nucera interviewed Dr. Andrea Cheng-Hakimian about a retrospective study that included 28 years of data from women with epilepsy who gave birth in Washington State...
27 Mars 202324min
Moving epilepsy care closer to home: Dr. Gagandeep Singh & Dr. Meenakshi Sharma
Send comments and feedback Can we improve epilepsy outcomes by bringing care closer to home? A cluster randomized trial compared home care with community health workers to standard clinic care. ILAE ...
13 Mars 202329min
Epilepsy care in Ukraine: Dr. Olha Tychkivska
Send comments and feedback How has the crisis in Ukraine affected people with epilepsy and their families, as well as the physicians who care for them? Dr. Alina Ivaniuk speaks with Dr. Olha Tychkivsk...
27 Feb 202335min
Addressing epilepsy stigma from the ground up: Mary Secco
Send comments and feedback Stigmatizing people with epilepsy is a form of discrimination, and it can affect all aspects of someone's life: school, family life, work, friendships, relationships, and ma...
13 Feb 202318min
"Living with epilepsy should not be a secret": Jessie Nyirenda
Send comments and feedback Jessie Nyirenda's seizures began in her early teens. She was dismissed as attention-seeking and told she might be cursed. Years later, Jessie discovered information about he...
13 Feb 202314min
Sleep and epilepsy: Dr. Birgit Frauscher
Send comments and feedback Bidirectional links between epilepsy and sleep have been known for thousands of years. Despite nearly a century of research using EEG investigations, the relationships are s...
30 Jan 202328min
