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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.
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]
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The Epilepsy Foundation received anecdotal reports of patients experiencing seizures and side effects after switching drugs, and tried to convince the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1999 that there was a problem, but the FDA decided there was no evidence. In 2006, foundation leaders convened a committee of medical experts, and its ...
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.
The International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) is a non-for-profit started in 1961 [1] which aims to improve the social condition and quality of life of people with epilepsy. [2] The organization addresses social problems such as employment, education, driving license restrictions and public awareness. [ 3 ]
A seizure is a paroxysmal episode of symptoms or altered behavior arising from abnormal excessive or synchronous brain neuronal activity. [5] A focal onset seizure arises from a biological neural network within one cerebral hemisphere, while a generalized onset seizure arises from within the cerebral hemispheres rapidly involving both hemispheres.
Epilepsy Research Institute, formerly Epilepsy Research UK, is a British medical research charity dedicated to funding and supporting research into epilepsy. [ 1 ] In March 2007, the Epilepsy Research Foundation merged with the Fund for Epilepsy to become Epilepsy Research UK (ERUK).