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Research into the causes, diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. Research focuses on brain imaging and genetics. [2] Epilepsy information, a national helpline and awareness raising programmes. [3] Campaigning on issues to help all people affected by epilepsy live as full a life as possible [4] Epilepsy training to external organisations. [5] [6]
In March 2007, the Epilepsy Research Foundation merged with the Fund for Epilepsy to become Epilepsy Research UK (ERUK). ERUK is the only national organisation exclusively engaged in research into epilepsy. The research projects and fellowships the organisation supports are reported to be of the highest scientific merit as they are subject to ...
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Dec 1994 - present Medical Director [5] Epilepsy Society, Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy Feb 2012 - present
William Richard Gowers, son of Hackney ladies' bootmaker William Gowers, was born above his father's shop in Mare Street, Hackney.By the time he was 11 his father and all three of his siblings had died, and his mother returned to live in Doncaster leaving the boy with Venables relatives in Oxford, where he attended Christ Church school.
He received the LifeTime Achievement Award for Research of the American Epilepsy Society in 2004. [2] Notable positions: 1988 Professor of neurology at the Institute of Neurology (part of University College London). 2012-2018 Clinical director of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
The National Association of Epilepsy Centers is an association of Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers - academic departments of epilepsy in the United States that meets certain criteria and has certain resources available for the care of the most complicated patients with epilepsy. [1] It is based in Washington DC.
In 2000, a paper was published comparing Newton's psychosis with that of a patient with psychosis, who additionally happened to have generalised tonic-clonic seizures. It is possible that ambiguities in the introduction to this paper led readers to associate the epilepsy with Newton rather than the patient. [3] [212] Ludwig van Beethoven: 1770 ...
He was jointly awarded (with Frederic Gibbs) the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1951. He wrote, with his daughter Margaret, "Epilepsy and Related Disorders". [5] In 1937, Lennox described the situation regarding the medical treatment of epilepsy at the time: In the US there are some 500,000 persons subject to epilepsy.