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A Nurse’s Knowledge & A Mother’s Love Leads to Son’s Life-Changing Brain Surgery
This month onSeizing Life a nurse and mother shares her young sons journey from the onset of focal seizures to a devastating diagnosis of Rasmussens Encephalitis to a life-changing brain surgery.
Artificial Intelligence and Epilepsy: The Promise & Pitfalls of AI in Diagnosing Epilepsy and Treatment
This month onSeizing Life we explore artificial intelligence as it relates to epilepsy care, how its impacting epilepsy diagnosis and treatment today, and what it promises for the future.
The Best of Seizing Life 2020
This week onSeizing Lifewe revisitjust a few of the incredible guests and conversations from 2020. In a challenging year, we, like so many across the country, had to adjust to working remotely. And
Regenerative Brain Cell Therapy: One Woman’s Journey to Seizure Freedom
This week on Seizing Life Annette Adkins, who has lived with intractable epilepsy since 2014, discusses the impacts of epilepsy on her professional and personal life, and how it led her to participat
Rare Epilepsy Organizations: Fostering Community and Advancing Research
This week on Seizing Life we speak with two rare epilepsy organizations, The KCNT1 Epilepsy Foundation and The Cute Syndrome Foundation, in an episode recorded at Epilepsy Awareness Day at Disneyland
Infantile Spasms: The Facts, The Research, and The Hope for the Future
This week onSeizing Life, in recognition of Infantile Spasms Awareness Week (December 1st 7th), we speak with epilepsy researcher Dr. Chris Dulla about infantile spasms what we know, what recent
Epilepsy in Women: Challenges, Concerns, and Considerations
This week onSeizing Life we speak with Dr. Elizabeth Gerard about impacts, challenges, and concerns specific to women living with epilepsy. From puberty to menstruation, contraception, pregnancy, an
NYC Marathoner Achieves Seizure Control and Runs for Epilepsy Research
This week on Seizing Life we speak with Peter Burpee who experienced absence epilepsy in childhood and tonic clonic seizures in his teen years, but has gained seizure control and will be running in t
Searching for Answers, Providing Support, and Understanding Grief After the Death of a Child
This week onSeizing Life in observance of SUDEP Action Day on October 18th, we speak with Dr. Richard Goldstein, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, about the program he dir
Infantile Spasms Diagnosis and Treatment Journey Inspires Children’s Book
This week onSeizing Life Kate Kostolansky shares her daughter Charlottes infantile spasms diagnosis and treatment journey, and explains how these experiences inspired a childrens book designed to