Join the epilepsy community for Purple Day® on March 26, a global initiative to raise epilepsy awareness and support the millions of people living with epilepsy worldwide. Approximately 65 million ...

Through public policy, legal advocacy, and grassroots engagement, you can raise awareness about the issues affecting the epilepsy community and seek positive change. At the Epilepsy Foundation, our ...

The National Plan aims to support the 3.4 million people living with epilepsy in the United States through a unified approach ...

This group meets on the third Sunday of every month at 5pm Arizona Time and is open to any adult to join. Registration is required: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting ...

Purple Day ® is a global initiative to raise awareness about epilepsy and support those affected by it. Also called World Epilepsy Day ™, Purple Day was created in 2008 by nine-year-old Cassidy Megan ...

This group provides teenagers with epilepsy a chance to meet others with similar issues, make new friends, and learn from the experience of others. This group meets via Zoom on 1st and 3rd Thursdays ...

The risk that a person with epilepsy will be injured during a seizure at home can be greatly reduced by taking some simple safety precautions: Carpet the floors with heavy pile and thick underpadding.

Our son Beaudin had a stroke at birth causing him to have a traumatic brain injury (TBI). He had seizures during his first few days of life and was on medication for six months. Things were better and ...

Some people with epilepsy find that over time they have to take larger and larger doses of their seizure medicine to achieve the same result. This effect is known as tolerance. Studies in both humans ...

When I was 34 years old, during an especially exciting and fulfilling time in my life, I suddenly had a generalized tonic-clonic seizure in the middle of my grad school classroom. My professor called ...