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

Seizure First Aid Ready Access this 30-minute online training from anywhere, anytime. Seizure First Aid Ready educates the public on the Epilepsy Foundation’s basic procedures for responding to ...

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 ...

Marc A. Dichter, MD, PhD, is Professor of Neurology and Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His areas of expertise include: seizures and epilepsy, epileptogenesis, status ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dr. Rotenberg’s program is based upon the premise that seizures may be managed by applying deep magnetic stimulation delivered around the head by the H-Coil technology to areas of the brain such as ...

Often times, living with epilepsy means not only wading through seizures, various drug treatments and side effects, but other medical and psychiatric condition as well. Some of the most frequent ...

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 ...