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Epilepsy Action provides freephone and email helplines and a wide range of information booklets, web pages and e-learning courses. It has around 100 local support groups across England , Wales and Northern Ireland and a network of volunteers working in the community.
Epilepsy Outlook is a charity based in Hartlepool which provides free and confidential practical support, advice and information for people with epilepsy and their carers. [4] Their support services include supported volunteer placements, a drop-in centre, epilepsy awareness training, an art therapy group and welfare benefits advice.
Opinion: Children with epilepsy should be able to feel safe at school, and teachers shouldn't have to fear seizure response, writes Dr. David Moore. 4,400 Iowa kids have epilepsy. Schools need ...
Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), formerly known as pyknolepsy, is an idiopathic generalized epilepsy which occurs in otherwise normal children. The age of onset is between 4–10 years with peak age between 5–7 years.
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]
Focal seizures (also called partial seizures [1] and localized seizures) are seizures that affect initially only one hemisphere of the brain. [2] [3] The brain is divided into two hemispheres, each consisting of four lobes – the frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital lobes.
Epilepsy can affect employment for a variety of reasons. Many employers are reluctant to hire a person they know has epilepsy, even if the seizures are controlled by medication. If the employee has a seizure while at work, they could harm themselves (but rarely others, contrary to popular belief) depending on the nature of the work.
Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering epilepsy established in 1992. The editor-in-chief is Markus Reuber ( University of Sheffield ). It is the official journal of Epilepsy Action .