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  2. Epilepsy Action - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Epileptologist - Wikipedia

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    An epileptologist is a neurologist who specializes in the treatment of epilepsy. [1] Epileptologists are experts in epileptic seizures and seizure disorders, anticonvulsants, and special situations involving seizures, such as cases in which all treatment intended to stop seizures has failed and epilepsy (especially poorly controlled epilepsy) in pregnant women.

  4. Epilepsy Society - Wikipedia

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    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] Employment opportunities for people with epilepsy. [1] [4]

  5. Epilepsy and employment - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Seizure types - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Epilepsy Research Institute - Wikipedia

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    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 rigorous scrutiny, involving a Scientific Advisory Committee, independent expert opinion, interviews and peer review. [ 2 ]

  8. Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS) previously known as West syndrome needs the inclusion of epileptic spasms for diagnosis. [1] Epileptic spasms (also known as infantile spasms) may also occur outside of a syndrome (that is, in the absence of hypsarrhythmia and cognitive regression) - notably in association with severe brain disorders (e.g. lissencephaly).

  9. Epilepsy surgery - Wikipedia

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    The pre-surgical evaluation for epilepsy is designed to locate the "epileptic focus" or the "epileptogenic zone" (the location where the epilepsy originates in the brain) and to determine if/how surgery could affect normal brain function. [8]