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Epilepsy Learning Center
Seizures can be confused with symptoms of a number of other conditions. For this reason, doctors rely upon four distinct methods to diagnose epilepsy...
Epilepsy effects nearly 3 million Americans, but who is really at risk? Robert S. Fishers Epilepsy can develop in any person at any age. Almost 1% of...
Although epilepsy has affected people for millions of years, myths about the disorder still abound. Let us look at some basic facts about epilepsy. U...
Female: Epilepsy has attracted attention and had been a source of controversy throughout the ages. Let us look back at the history of this condition....
Male Speaker: Suzy and Steven Hovland have been married for 15 years and they never imagined one day they would be parents. That's because Suzy has e...
Male Speaker: 42-year old Cynthia Rickmen who was constant mother of three was diagnosed with epilepsy, 17-years ago when she suddenly had a seizure....
Male Speaker: 46 year-old Polly Siegel's epilepsy first appeared 15 years ago after she had a devastating bike accident. She recovered from her injur...
Female speaker: During the 2006 Olympics goaltender, Chanda Gunn helped the USA Women's Ice Hockey team win bronze. She says her epilepsy was the las...
A seizure is a symptom of many different disorders that can affect the brain not a disease in itself. In centurys pass, the word seizure refers to pe...
Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Epilepsy Jenny: My eight-year old and my three-year old have both been diagnosed with epilepsy. They dont have the violen...
Male Speaker: Approximately 335,000 Canadians have epilepsy with the majority being diagnosed before the age of 18 and 44% diagnosed before the age o...
Bob's story is a really nicely illustrates some of the issues that older people in particular face when they're diagnosed with epilepsy as far as qua...
I was driving at night. It was night in the mountain road in Wales and it came to at a temporary traffic light on this road. They were repairing it a...
Jennifer Mathews: Marcia Wysong traveled three hours to undergo an experimental treatment for a life-altering disease. Marcia Wysong: What else do I ...
The Link Between Epilepsy and Autism Win: I'm Win from Honolulu, Hawaii. If a child has a seizure, are they more than likely just epileptic or is tha...
The way I think of epilepsy is, epilepsy is an electrical storm of the brain. When Nathan is describing or was describing his common, when people fir...
Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Center BrainandSpinalCord.org Marcy Newsome Hi, I am Marcy from the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Center at BrainandSpina...
Generalized seizures which involve a wide spread electrical discharge across both sides of the brain come in variety of forms. Let us look at some co...
How to Cope with Child Epilepsy Part 2/2 Derricks situation is quite typical and that the seizures will come out of nowhere often for no apparent rea...
Female 1: Dilantin is the brand name for phenytoin an epilepsy medication approved by the FDA in 1956. Female2: Phenytoin is a prescription medicatio...
Dr. Binder recalls the epilepsy patients who will benefit most from vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy, a treatment that reduces seizure occurance...
How to Cope with Child Epilepsy Part Derrick started having Epilepsy when he was in the first grade around Christmas time. Yeah I felt upset for Der...
The cells in our brain communicate through electrical signals. So when that system goes array, it's not as systematic as it should be, then the signa...
Susan Sharma: This is insidermedicine in 60. From Denmark, according to research in The Lancet the risk of epilepsy last for years after a traumatic ...
Lucy Piper: Hello! I am Lucy Piper. One of the most frightening things that can happen is when your child has seizure convulsions, and there are lots...
Female 1: Topamax is used to prevent seizures and migraines and was approved by the FDA in 1996. Female 2: Topiramate is a prescription medication wh...
Lamictal (Lamotrigine) Lamictal is the brand name for Lamotrigine, which is used to treat epilepsy and was approved by the FDA in 1994. Sandra Takami...
Three million Americans have some form of epilepsy -- a condition that causes violent, sometimes dangerous seizures. A new surgery stops the seizures...
Matt: I am Matt from New York, a good friend of mine has epilepsy and I was wondering what causes epilepsy and can it be controlled through medicatio...
Speaker: The variety of problems that Pediatric Osteopathy can treat is extraordinary as well as more common childhood ailments here, the Osteopathic...
Female 1: Keppra is the brand name for levetiracetam and epilepsy medication approved by the FDA in 1999. Female 2: Levetiracetam is a prescription m...
Depakote (Divalproex Sodium) Depakote is the brand name for Divalproex Sodium which is used to control seizures, migraines, and bipolar disorder and ...
Morgan Gottleib's Coping with Severe Seizures Part 2/3 Peggy: A lot of tears, a lot of Why is this happening to us? you know god whats happening why ...
Morgan Gottleib's Coping with Severe Seizures Part 1/3 Male: The maternal instinct to protect ones daughter is at the very heart of what it means to ...
Laura: Neuroscience and religious experience, what does the brain have to do with religion? And how do we become who we are? What is our purpose? And...
Host: Im here today with Dr. Alen Cohen who is the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital in Cleveland Ohio and ...
Female: Shes doing great. She loves working with the kids. The kids seem to like her and she feels that she is being productive and thats wonderful. ...
Question: What is vagus nerve stimulation? Mark S. George: Well, the vagus nerve, we actually have two of them. They run in our necks, right here on ...
Dr. Susan Sharma: This is insider medicine in 60, from Boston - According to research published in Science, the reason why some children with autism ...
Jeniffer Mathews: this is how Heidi Cline gets to school, to work, and back home; pedalling more than 35 miles a week. She doesn't drive a car becaus...
Jennifer Matthews:The future of the human race is about to take a turn. James Hughes: All human beings have always wanted to be better than well. We ...
Speaker: While science hasn't discovered a cure for migraine headache, breakthroughs and preventive therapy allow many patients to significantly redu...
Male Speaker: We have always wanted to transcend the limitations of human condition. Male Speaker: 30 years ago popular TV shows like the Bionic Man ...
Dr. Binder explains how vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy is utilized to treat patients with epilepsy, reducing their occurrence of seizures.
Rebecca Fox: In difficult financial times its not uncommon for people to cut corners like going without certain foods. But when one American mother d...
Dr. Jeffrey Cohen explains the common causes and medications for epilepsy.
So if you watched the last video, you know that there are 17.5 teaspoons of sugar in a Pepsi. Now, a lot of people are going to wonder, okay, what's ...
