Epilepsy advice and information

Advice and Information A to Z  

Alcohol and recreational drugs

• Alcohol and recreational drugs

Benefits information for people with epilepsy

• Free prescriptions 
• Disabled persons railcard
• Free bus travel
• Transport to work
• Disability Living Allowance/Attendance Allowance

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

Complementary treatments

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

Depression

• Depression

Diagnosis

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

Disability Discrimination Act

• Disability Discrimination Act
• Disability Discrimination Act and insurance

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

Drugwatch

• Drugwatch

Education

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

Employment

• Employment for people with epilepsy
• Employing people with epilepsy

Facts and figures

• Facts and figures

First aid

• First aid
• Tonic-clonic seizures
• Seizures involving altered consciousness or behaviour
• Status epilepticus

Inheriting epilepsy

• Inheriting epilepsy

Leaflet Library  

• Leaflet Library

Learning disabilities

• Learning disabilities

Memory

• Memory

Men

• Introduction
• What is epilepsy?  
• Living with epilepsy
• Treatment
• Visiting your doctor
• Sex and sexuality
• Becoming a father
• SUDEP
• Support

Mobile phones

• Mobile phones

Older people

• Older people

Photosensitive epilepsy

• Introduction
• Television
• Computers
• Videogames
• Other possible triggers
• Web design

Prisons

• Information for prisoners
• Information for prison staff  

Relationships

• Relationships

Safety

• Safety
• Caring for young children (for parents with epilepsy) : a quick guide
• Epilepsy and caring for children: a comprehensive guide

Seizures

• Seizures explained
• Describing seizure types
• Partial seizures
  • Temporal lobe seizures
  • Frontal lobe seizures
  • Parietal lobe seizures
  • Occipital lobe seizures
• Generalised seizures
  • Absence seizures
  • Atonic seizures
  • Myoclonic seizures
  • Tonic seizures
  • Tonic-clonic seizures
• First aid for seizures
• Auras and warnings
• Febrile convulsions
• Keeping a seizure diary
• Non-epileptic attack disorder
• Sleep and seizures
• Triggers

Sport and leisure

• Beauty treatments
• Leisure
• Swimming

Stress

• Stress
• Exams

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)

• Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)

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

Teenagers and young people

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

Travel

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

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

What is epilepsy?

• Frequently asked questions

Women

• Sexual development (puberty)
• Sex life
• Your periods (the menstrual cycle)
• Contraception
• The menopause and HRT
• Epilepsy and fertility
• Planning a baby
• Scans and tests during pregnancy
• Giving birth
• Breastfeeding
• Caring for children
• Inheriting epilepsy
• How you can help Epilepsy Action
• Epilepsy Mine