Alternative therapies, like medical cannabis, may help people manage their seizures better. They can be included alongside your normal treatment plan.

The Epilepsy Foundation of America is proud to announce the appointment of Courtney Caputo as Chair of the National Board of Directors.

Photosensitive epilepsy is more common in children and adolescents, especially those with generalized epilepsy and with certain epilepsy syndromes, such as juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and epilepsy ...

Infantile spasms are a significant challenge to treating physicians and is a serious epilepsy syndrome affecting young children that need to be identified, diagnosed and managed rapidly in order to ...

This 8 ½ x 11 poster contains first aid information for managing seizures for a person in a wheelchair and when to call for help.

A special person in my support system is the person I was able to say, “I do” on my wedding day. As a teenager, I was not sure I would be able to share my life with someone else. My wife has witnessed ...

It's a good idea to speak to your roommate about epilepsy and your need for daily medicine. Roommates are like extensions of family members and it's important that you feel comfortable taking your ...

Eventually, I was given a name for what was happening inside me: Left Mesial Temporal Sclerosis—a form of scarring deep in the left temporal lobe of my brain, right inside the hippocampus. That’s the ...

I was 25 when I had my first seizure. I was at work, mopping the floor like any other day, and the next thing I remember was waking up, confused and surrounded by concerned faces and paramedics.

In the months that followed, my seizures kept getting worse and occurred three or four times daily. My dose of the medication was increased during this time. I did as much research as I could and ...

Operation Giveback came about through a confluence of interests that I developed recently. On the one hand, professionally, I have been involved with the problem of epilepsy for years. In addition, I ...

We went on to hold three readings of the play. One at a theater in New Jersey, one for the League of Professional Theatre Women in NYC, and one was an awareness-raising play at Cornerstone, Montclair, ...