Living with epilepsy means navigating many parts of your life, between seizures, medications, mood, and sleep. Sleep is important for your well-being and seizure control. If you’re on seizure medicine ...

The Seizure Recognition and First Aid certification training provides information to increase the knowledge, skills and confidence in recognizing seizures and safely administering seizure first aid.

From nationwide volunteer events to spreading awareness in your local community, there are many ways to get involved with the Epilepsy Foundation. Every day, our volunteers work toward a common goal ...

Seizure Action (or Response) Plans are available in English and other languages for all ages and any setting. The seizure action plan and additional forms help you create a plan to manage and respond ...

Stigma can often steer a person toward silence. But what if we changed our story by sharing our experience with epilepsy and overcoming stigma? Stigma can be the biggest struggle of a person’s ...

When seizures are triggered by flashing lights, you can change your environment to help. Reduce photosensitivity triggers with personal planning.

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a term used to describe a focal area of abnormal brain cell (“neuron”) organization and development. Brain cells normally form into organized layers of cells to form ...

Seizures may be slightly more common in people with MS than in the general population due to the way MS affects the brain. We now know that MS damages several parts of the brain (the white brain ...

Why do seizures increase during pregnancy? One of the reasons seizures increase during pregnancy is that blood levels of anti-seizure medications go down during pregnancy. Seizures are known to ...

Approximately every 3-6 months, ketogenic diet centers recommend you check labs while on ketogenic diet therapy. We do this to look for possible side effects from the diet, including high cholesterol, ...

A few months ago, we asked on our social media channels, “what’s the most common misconception about epilepsy you’d like to debunk?” As a result, we received over 400 comments from members of the ...

It can be difficult to know what to bring to the epilepsy monitoring unit for your stay. You may not know how many days you’ll be there, so you want to make sure you’re as comfortable as possible ...