Getting Ready for Back to School: Seizure Management for Students

As many as 325,000 school-age children, ages 5–14, have epilepsy. Thankfully, with medication, surgery, a special diet or vagus nerve stimulation, most go to school and fully participate in school activities.

Epilepsy in the African American Community: Access, Education, Advocacy

Lance Curtis may be an anomaly. As an African-American with epilepsy, he is part of a group that often faces some of the most serious challenges in epilepsy treatment.

In My Own Words

"I went from being a vibrant woman with a bright future tobeing a candidate for an extended adult care facility. The world had once been my oyster, and the oyster just closed right up."

ADHD and Epilepsy

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their parents are frequent visitors to the offices of pediatric neurologists.

Epilepsy in the Workplace: To Disclose or Not?

People with epilepsy are often confronted with the issue of whether they are required to disclose information about their health condition to their employers.

Epilepsy in Perspective

Clearly Nick's way of looking at things−from epilepsy, to images in front of his camera, to a damaged lampost−provides him with a unique angle that helps topple conventional viewpoints and preconceived notions.

Camp Provides Opportunity for Kids with Epilepsy

A summer camp experience can be life-changing event in a child's life, but for many years, children living with epilepsy did not have that experience.

Administration of Medication and Other Treatments in Schools, Daycare and Camps

There are multiple situations in which people with epilepsy who are prescribed FDAapproved treatments, such as rectally administered diazepam (Diastat®) or the VNS (vagus nerve stimulator), have been denied access to school, daycare or school-related activities, or have incurred unnecessary medical risks because educators and child care service providers refuse to make the medications readily available on-site.