Hollywood Movie Premiere Highlights National Epilepsy Awareness Month
Hollywood Movie Premiere Highlights National Epilepsy Awareness Month
Greg Grunberg andEpilepsy Foundation Get Stars to Talk About It!
Washington, D.C. (November 11, 2010) — The Epilepsy Foundation’s National Epilepsy Awareness Month gets a boost from Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions with a red carpet affair and after party for Morning Glory, starring Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, and Rachel McAdams.
The event benefits TalkAboutIt.org, created by Greg Grunberg (star of the upcoming NBC series ‘LOVE BITES’) in collaboration with the Epilepsy Foundation. Grunberg, the father of a child with epilepsy, and chair of the National Walk for Epilepsy since its inception, joins the Foundation to educate people about seizures, including the proper first aid of never putting anything in the mouth of someone having a seizure.
Epilepsy, affecting nearly 3 million Americans, is the third most common neurological disorder in the United States after Alzheimer’s disease and stroke. Its prevalence is greater than cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease combined. One in every ten Americans have had, or will have, a seizure at some point in their lives.
This year’s National Epilepsy Awareness Month theme, Get Seizure Smart, calls for Americans to learn seizure recognition and first aid by taking an interactive quiz on www.GetSeizureSmart.org. Epilepsy Foundation chapters across the country will host awareness events to educate local communities. Daily facts are also distributed on social networking sites.
