What is epilepsy?
Seizures
- The structure of the brain
- Why seizures happen
- When seizures start
- Seizure classification
- Seizure types
- Focal (partial) seizures
- Focal (partial) seizures in the temporal lobes
- Focal (partial) seizures in the frontal lobes
- Jacksonian seizures
- Todd’s paralysis or Todd’s paresis
- Focal (partial) seizures in the parietal lobes
- Focal (partial) seizures in the occipital lobes
- Focal (partial) seizures progressing to generalised seizures
- Generalised seizures
- Status epilepticus
- First aid for seizures
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Treatment
- Anti-epileptic drug treatment
- Visiting your doctor
- Keeping a diary
- UK anti-epileptic drug list
- Why do my drugs look different?
- The Ketogenic diet
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation
- Surgery
Stress
Memory
Employment
- Introduction to epilepsy and working in the UK
- Looking for work
- Epilepsy in the workplace
- Seizures in the workplace - advice for employers
- Transport to work
- Sources of further advice and information
First aid
- First aid
- Tonic-clonic seizures
- Seizures involving altered consciousness or behaviour
- Status epilepticus
Safety
- Safety
- Caring for young children (for parents with epilepsy) : a quick guide
- Epilepsy and caring for children: a comprehensive guide
Benefits information for people with epilepsy
Possible entitlements for people with epilepsy in England
Possible entitlements for people with epilepsy in Wales
Possible entitlements for people with epilepsy in Scotland
- Free prescriptions
- The Disabled Persons Railcard
- Free bus fares - adults
- Free bus fares - children
- Access to work
- Welfare benefits
Possible entitlements for people with epilepsy in Northern Ireland
Drugwatch
Diagnosis
- Getting a diagnosis
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
The UK Equality Act
Depression
Relationships
Driving
- Driving
- UK driving regulations
- Applying for a driving licence for the first time
- Why you should stop driving when you have had a seizure
- Driving for a living
Facts and figures
Women
- Your periods (the menstrual cycle)
- Sex life
- Contraception
- Bone health
- The menopause
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
- Sources of further advice and information for women
- Epilepsy and having a baby
- Epilepsy Mine
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
Education
- Education – parent’s guide
- Teacher’s guide
- Higher education
- Epilepsy awareness project for primary schools
- Exams
Travel
Alcohol
Syndromes
- Introduction to syndromes
- Aicardi syndrome
- Angelman syndrome
- Baltic myoclonus
- BECOP (Benign epilepsy of childhood with occipital paroxysms)
- Benign myoclonic epilepsy in infancy
- Benign partial epilepsy in infancy
- Benign rolandic epilepsy
- Childhood absence epilepsy
- Early myoclonic encephalopathy
- Epilepsy with myoclonic absences
- ESESS (Electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep)
- GEFS+ (Generalised epilepsy with febrile seizures plus)
- Gelastic epilepsy
- Infantile spasms
- Janz syndrome
- Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
- Landau Kleffner syndrome
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
- Migrating partial epilepsy
- Myoclonic astatic epilepsy
- Ohtahara syndrome
- Panayiotopoulous syndrome
- Pyridoxine responsive epilepsy
- Ramsay Hunt syndrome
- Rasmussen syndrome
- Rett syndrome
- Ring 20 syndrome
- SMEI (Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy)
- Sturge-Weber syndrome
- Unverricht-Lundborg syndrome
- West’s syndrome
Sport and leisure
- Sport and leisure activities and epilepsy
- Telling people about your epilepsy
- Talking to your doctor
- Swimming
- Beauty treatments
Children
- Childhood syndromes
- Epilepsy in newborn babies
- Epilepsy and caring for children
- Kids' section
- Parents' guide
- 'Me and my dad' – a story to help parents explain their epilepsy
- Learning and behaviour
Older people
Inheriting epilepsy
Photosensitive epilepsy
- Acknowledgments
- About photosensitive epilepsy
- An explanation of hertz
- Some possible triggers
- Ceiling fans
- Cinema films
- Computer monitors
- Computer or video games
- Interactive whiteboards
- Lights
- Patterns
- Sun beds
- Sunlight
- Television
- Wind turbines
- Useful information and contacts
Complementary treatments
Teenagers and young people
Learning disabilities
Mobile phones
Prisons
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- Stress and epilepsy
- Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
- Syndromes
- The Disability Discrimination Act
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- Vagus nerve stimulation therapy in epilepsy
- Work and epilepsy
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