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 the coronavirus. Since then, for Zoey and her family, it's been one struggle, one day of hell after another. READ... 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 the floor. 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
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 →
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
