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Wednesday, March 08, 2023
A Video Guide to Understanding Epilepsy
Courtesy of the Epilepsy Foundation Los Angeles, we are happy to share "Understanding Epilepsy". Featuring Deborah Holder, MD, a pediatric epilepsy
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Anti-Seizure Medications During Pregnancy
More than a million women with epilepsy are of childbearing age in the United States. Each year, 20,000 babies are born to women living with epilepsy
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Vitamin D and Seizure Control
Vitamin D has been studied for decades for its many functions in the body. Vitamin D is essential to the development of bones during the growing years
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Epilepsy and Autism: Is There a Relationship?
What is Epilepsy? Seizures: abnormal electrical firing from the brain Epilepsy: recurrent seizures Approximately 1-2% of children are diagnosed with
Tuesday, August 04, 2015
Making Sense Out of an EEG
Lately a number of questions have arisen in our Connect Community about the meaning of EEG findings. It can be very confusing when someone has an EEG
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
My Child’s Seizures have Stopped. Does my Child Still Need to Take Anti-seizure Medications?
Receiving the news that a child has epilepsy, or any chronic disease, is difficult. Even more difficult is the concept that there is no true “cure”
Summary of Anti-Seizure Medications
Epilepsy.com has a great section on anti-seizure medications, but I often have been asked for a brief summary document that pulls the information into
The Effects of Antibiotics on Seizure Medications
Seizure medicines can affect the way the body handles antibiotics. But the reverse is also true: some antibiotics affect levels of seizure medicines
Seizures and Headaches: They Don't Have to Go Together
Everyone experiences a headache at one time or another. But if you have epilepsy, your chances of suffering from headaches are greater than average
The Truth about Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures
PNES are attacks that may look like epileptic seizures but are not epileptic and instead are caused by psychological factors. Sometimes a specific