Epilepsy advice and information

What is epilepsy?

• Frequently asked questions

Seizures

• The structure of the brain
• Why seizures happen
• When seizures start
• Seizure classification
• Seizure types
  • About focal (partial) seizures
  • About generalised seizures
• 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
  • Tonic-clonic seizures
  • fter a tonic-clonic seizure
  • Post-ictal state
  • Absence seizures
  • Myoclonic seizures
  • Tonic seizures
  • Atonic seizures (drop attacks or akinetic seizures)
• Status epilepticus
• First aid for seizures

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

• Stress
• Exams

Memory

• 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

• Free prescriptions
• The Disabled Persons Railcard
• Free bus fares
• Access to work
• Welfare benefits
  • Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
  • Attendance Allowance (AA)

Possible entitlements for people with epilepsy in Wales

• Free prescriptions
• The Disabled Person’s Railcard
• Free travel pass
• Access to Work
• Welfare benefits

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

• Free prescriptions
• Half Price SmartPass
• Access to Work
• Welfare benefits

Drugwatch

• Drugwatch

Diagnosis

• Getting a diagnosis
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
• Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

The UK Equality Act

• About the Equality Act
• Where to get more information about the Equality Act

Depression

• Depression

Relationships

• 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

• 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)

• Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)

Education

• Education – parent’s guide
• Teacher’s guide
• Higher education
• Epilepsy awareness project for primary schools
• Exams

Travel

• Travel abroad
• Disabled persons railcard
• Bus travel in England, Scotland and Wales
• Travel Insurance

Alcohol

• 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

• Older people

Inheriting epilepsy

• 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

• Complementary treatments overview
• The Mozart Effect
• St John’s Wort

Teenagers and young people

• Teenagers' and young people's section
• Dear Debbie and Dear Danny
• Exams

Learning disabilities

• Learning disabilities

Mobile phones

• Mobile phones

Prisons

• Information for prisoners
• Information for prison staff