Shannon Guinard had finally booked an appointment with Johns Hopkins Medicine, and she wasn’t going to let it go to waste. Her husband, Eric, had been having seizures for about 16 years, but no one had been able to provide a diagnosis. Guinard believed his seizures were triggered by stress and was often frustrated during […]
July 23, 2023 | Depression, Epilepsy, Medicine, Neurology, PNES, Research, Seizures, Stress and Epilepsy
UNESCO is leading a global conversation on how best to regulate the Neurotechnology industry. This emerging sector is still something of a ‘black box’. Little is known about how decoding and manipulating our brains might impact us. There is a risk it may even fundamentally distort our sense of personal autonomy. In the last two […]
July 21, 2023 | Epilepsy, Medicine, Mental Health, Neurology, Research, Technology
Corynne McKenney-Collier’s lawyer Stanley King filed a tort notice last week of intentions to file a lawsuit alleging “unnecessary and excessive force” by Galloway police. Shortly after leaving home for work about 7 a.m., Corynne McKenney-Collier’s vehicle swerved on a South Jersey road, striking a tree. After having an epileptic seizure, she has little […]
July 13, 2023 | Driving & Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Epilepsy in seniors, Epilepsy in women, Epilepsy Syndromes, Family and Friends, First Aid for Seizures, Human Interest Epilepsy, Memory, Neurology, News, Seizure Detection, Seizure dogs, Seizure Types, Seizures, Stress and Epilepsy, Women and Epilepsy
A Kendal man is walking the entire length of Hadrian’s Wall in memory of his partner who died from epilepsy. Ewan Duff is walking 84 miles without stopping to raise money for SUDEP, Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy, Action. His partner Rachel Morgan died despite having no formal diagnosis for epilepsy. In January had a […]
July 12, 2023 | Depression, Epilepsy, Epilepsy in children, Epilepsy in seniors, Epilepsy in women, Family and Friends, Human Interest Epilepsy, Mental Health, Neurology, Research, Seizure Detection, Seizure Types, Seizures, Stress and Epilepsy, SUDEP, Support, Women and Epilepsy
The prospect of a cure for a type of epilepsy could be one step closer following breakthrough research on materials that may help new types of probes be safely implanted in the brain. Bioengineering researchers from the University of Glasgow have investigated new dissolvable coatings which could help safely guide flexible implants into brains to […]
June 27, 2023 | Education, Epilepsy, Epilepsy in children, Epilepsy in seniors, Epilepsy in women, Epilepsy Syndromes, Human Interest Epilepsy, Medicine, Mental Health, Neurology, News, Seizure Types, Seizures, Support, Technology
While caffeine consumption is a daily habit for many people, it can become a little more complicated for those with a central nervous system disorder like epilepsy. That’s because caffeine interacts with certain brain signals, and seizures occur when there’s an imbalance of electrical activity in the brain. In high doses, caffeine can be a potential epilepsy trigger—but in lower […]
June 26, 2023 | Epilepsy, Human Interest Epilepsy, Neurology, News, Seizure Types, Seizures