Reducing Suicide Risk in People With Epilepsy
About 12% of people with epilepsy experience suicidal thoughts at some point in their life. Among children and teens, the rate is as high as 20%. Compared with the general…
Epilepsy Surgery Stops Lifelong Seizures
For 24 years, Grace Lindsey never knew a day without a seizure. Every time she woke – from a night of sleep or from a nap – she had a…
Epilepsy and the Coronavirus (COVID-19) FAQs
Professor Ley Sander is the Medical Director at the Epilepsy Society. Here, he has put together an FAQ factsheet for those with epilepsy about the coronavirus (COVID-19). Please note that…
Epilepsy treatment side effect: New insights about the brain
Dr. Andrew Ko performed brain surgery on Genette Hofmann at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle in hopes of reducing the epileptic seizures that had disrupted Hofmann’s life for decades. At…