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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 the floor. 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 of minutes she wasn’t feeling well and knew something was wrong. She was in the midst of having a seizure.... 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 and flailing around. READ MORE

Twitter has banned the use of animated PNG image (APNG) files on its platform, after attackers targeted the Epilepsy Foundation's Twitter account using images that could potentially causes seizures in photo-sensitive individuals. READ MORE