Melanie Ollick Komninos's daughter, Zoey, already battles cerebral palsy and epilepsy. She has a nurse to help her as she struggles every day. Then the nurse was potentially exposed to... read more →
Six months after starting my first faculty position, I lost consciousness while speaking with my students and postdocs. I hit my head on a lab bench as I fell to... read more →
Nocturnal seizures are seizures that happen while a person is asleep. READ MORE
I’m not sure what “right number” of seizures would have allowed me to address the emotional strain that accumulated over a decade with epilepsy. READ MORE
Fashion entrepreneur Camila Coelho is speaking out about her epilepsy in hopes of changing the stigma around the neurological disorder. READ MORE
First diagnosed with epilepsy at age 9, Camila Coelho is opening up about her struggles with the neurological disorder in hopes of helping others READ MORE
It was about five years ago that Jessica Velazquez’s life changed forever. The seventh-grader at Goodrich Middle School woke up like it was any other day but within a matter... read more →
Depression. Exhaustion. Burnout. Stress. Those are just some of the words people are using to describe their experiences as caregivers. READ MORE
Aidan Jackson of England was playing an online game with an American friend when he had a seizure READ MORE
The day my husband told me that I looked as if I was convulsing in my sleep, I thought nothing of it. Surely I was just having a bad dream... read more →